TY - JOUR
T1 - A living-sphere approach for locally oriented sustainable design
AU - Kobayashi, Hideki
AU - Fukushige, Shinichi
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15H06347, and by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-16) of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency, Japan. We would like to thank Ass. Prof. Yoshinori Sumimura of Osaka University for supporting field observations.
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PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Achieving a sustainable consumption and production pattern is one of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals for 2030. To achieve this, it is necessary to consider the environmental burden from a product life cycle and the quality of life of the consumer. In this study, a systematic approach for connecting basic human needs and the product development process, called the living-sphere approach, is proposed. This approach is intended to encompass the complete relationship between region-specific basic needs and durable products. In this approach, value graphs, which visualize the value system of products, are connected to satisfiers fulfilling the basic needs set out by Max-Neef. A value graph links satisfiers and the traditional product development process. The significance of the proposed approach is twofold. First, improving quality of daily life and traditional product development are combined in the same framework. Second, the design of single products and the total optimization of multi-products are supported at the requirement level.
AB - Achieving a sustainable consumption and production pattern is one of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals for 2030. To achieve this, it is necessary to consider the environmental burden from a product life cycle and the quality of life of the consumer. In this study, a systematic approach for connecting basic human needs and the product development process, called the living-sphere approach, is proposed. This approach is intended to encompass the complete relationship between region-specific basic needs and durable products. In this approach, value graphs, which visualize the value system of products, are connected to satisfiers fulfilling the basic needs set out by Max-Neef. A value graph links satisfiers and the traditional product development process. The significance of the proposed approach is twofold. First, improving quality of daily life and traditional product development are combined in the same framework. Second, the design of single products and the total optimization of multi-products are supported at the requirement level.
KW - Basic human needs
KW - Environmentally conscious design (eco-design)
KW - Local community
KW - Quality of life (QoL)
KW - Sustainable consumption and production (SCP)
KW - Sustainable design
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U2 - 10.1007/s13243-018-0048-8
DO - 10.1007/s13243-018-0048-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050543986
SN - 2210-464X
VL - 8
SP - 103
EP - 113
JO - Journal of Remanufacturing
JF - Journal of Remanufacturing
IS - 3
ER -