Sustainable product development

Sustainable product development

Sustainable product development (SPD) is a method for product development that incorporates a Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural Step (TNS) framework. As the demand for products continues to increase around the world and environmental factors like climate change increasingly affect policies - and thus business - it becomes more and more of a competitive advantage for businesses to consider sustainability aspects early on in the product development process.

References

*Byggeth S. H., Broman G., Holmberg J., Lundqvist U., and Robèrt K-H., A Method for Sustainable Product Development in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Third International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering - TMCE2000, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2000.

*Byggeth S. H., Broman G., Lundqvist U., Robèrt K-H., and Holmberg J., An Approach to Sustainability Product Analysis in Product Development, ERCP 2001 7th European Roundtable on Cleaner Production, Lund, Sweden, May 2-4, 2001.

ee also

* Sustainable design
* Strategic Sustainable Development


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