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Toward the Creation of an Impact Seriousness Indicator to Assist the Designer

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Ecodesigning a product means reducing its environmental impacts throughout its life cycle. The severity or seriousness of an environmental impact depends in particular on where it occurs. This study proposes a seriousness indicator complementary to the impact indicator, via a spatialization approach, in order to provide new information for decision-making in design.

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  1. University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France

    Florian Bratec & Nadege Troussier

  2. Groupe ESC Troyes, Troyes, France

    Rene Diaz-Pichardo

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  1. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Allen H. Hu

  2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

    Mitsutaka Matsumoto

  3. Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Tsai Chi Kuo

  4. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shana Smith

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Bratec, F., Troussier, N., Diaz-Pichardo, R. (2019). Toward the Creation of an Impact Seriousness Indicator to Assist the Designer. In: Hu, A., Matsumoto, M., Kuo, T., Smith, S. (eds) Technologies and Eco-innovation towards Sustainability II. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1196-3_28

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