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Product Design for the Environment: A Life Cycle Approach analyzes relevant topics of design for environment and provides methods and structured tools to assist the product design process. Based on a multi-level design approach to optimize product architecture and components, this book provides basic concepts, methodological frameworks, mathematical modeling, and design tools, illustrating their practical applications. The text integrates the life cycle approach in the conventional engineering design process, and covers the best strategies to achieve environmental quality, including analysis of resource distribution over the life cycle, extension of life, and recovery at the end-of-life.