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A Concept for Assessing Sustainability—The Sustainability Diamond

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The paper presents a new assessment methodology to measure sustainability for product development. The sustainability diamond consists of three dimensions, six criteria at the intersection of sustainability and usage and a variable number of indicators. Furthermore the concept provides opportunities to integrate people and actors (stakeholder) as well as a dynamic aspect, which gives the user the ability to apply the concept to different topics.

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Kammerl, D., Zink, R., Hollauer, C., Lindemann, U. (2017). A Concept for Assessing Sustainability—The Sustainability Diamond. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakrabarti, D. (eds) Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 66. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_16

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