Design for Environment
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Design for Environment (DfE) is a general concept that refers to a variety of design approaches that attempt to reduce the overall environmental impact of a product, process or service, where environmental impacts are considered across its life cycle. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is employed to forecast the impacts of different (production) alternatives of the product in question, thus being able to choose the environmentally most friendly. Different software tools have been developed to assist designers in finding optimised products (or processes/services). Design for Environment includes several subsidiary approaches, such as Design for Disassembly (to facilitate recycling) and source reduction.
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- Design for Environment - Department Life Cycle Engineering - LBP - University of Stuttgart
- Life Cycle Engineering - LBP - University of Stuttgart
- GaBi Software - The Software for Environmental Product and Process Optimisation
- PE Consulting Group - Life Cycle Engineering
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - DfE Program
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