Recommended books
Here you can find an open list of some key English literature around sustainable and circular product design. If you wish to add publications that might be interesting to others, please contact me.
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Navigating the Transition: Pathways to a Circular Metal Economy in the UK
Circular Design Research in The Netherlands FREE ⇲
Imaging equipment and its consumables. Preparatory Study for EcodesignFREE ⇲
Circular Transition Indicators (CTI): Sector guidance - Electronic devicesFREE ⇲
2023
Solving fashion’s product returns FREE ⇲
Achieving Circularity for Durable PlasticsFREE ⇲
Sustainable Manufacturing and theFREE ⇲
Future European Manufacturing System FREE ⇲
Materials and manufacturing vision 2050 FREE ⇲
Unlocking a reuse revolution: scaling returnable packaging FREE ⇲
Repair in the circular economy FREE ⇲
Designing Sustainable North Stars: A guide to design sustainable products FREE ⇲
2022
System Design For Sustainability In PracticeFREE ⇲
Social and Cultural Aspects of the Circular Economy
Design in the Age of Change
The French Reparability IndexFREE ⇲
Cross-industry exploration of product repair applications enabled by Additive ManufacturingFREE ⇲
Landscaping the Repair and Reuse Economy in KenyaFREE ⇲
Mobilising the circularFREE ⇲
3D Printing for Repair Guide FREE ⇲
Design for Sustainability Survival Guide
The life-centred design guide
The role of international trade in realizing an inclusive circular economyFREE ⇲
Swivel To Sustainability: A Full Systems Business Transformation Guidebook
Circular economy with a focus on plastics and textiles FREE ⇲
The Design Value Framework FREE ⇲
Circular innovation and ecodesign in the textiles sectorFREE ⇲
Driving a Circular Economy for Textiles through EPR FREE ⇲
Scaling ESG Solutions in Fashion FREE ⇲
Unwrapping Reuse Culture FREE ⇲
End-of-life mattress report 2022FREE ⇲
Developing Foresight into 2050 Packaging Material Demand FREE ⇲
Use. Reuse. Repeat: sharing learnings on reusable packagingFREE ⇲
2021
Sustainable Innovation: Strategy, Process and Impact
Design for and from recycling: practical guidelines for designersFREE ⇲
Circular Economy
Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts
Unlocking the potential of Industry 4.0 to reduceFREE ⇲
Design for Maintainability
Sustainable Product Design and Development
System-Shifting Design: An Evolving Practice ExploredFREE ⇲
The Circular Fashion Ecosystem A Blueprint For The FutureFREE ⇲
The Rise of Conscious Design - A Report About Tomorrow's MaterialsFREE ⇲
Business Models for Sustainability Transitions
Design for a Better WorldFREE ⇲
Critical evaluation of material criticality and product-related circularity approachesFREE ⇲
Making the business case for packaging reuse systemsFREE ⇲
Extending the Life of Infant Mobility Products: Implementing a Product Service SystemFREE ⇲
Study on the Product Lifecycles, Waste Recycling and the Circular Economy for NanomaterialsFREE ⇲
Forging Ahead A materials roadmap for the zero-carbon carFREE ⇲
Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design
Bio Design - Living Construction
Circular Business Models: Overcoming Barriers, Unleashing PotentialsFREE ⇲
Net Zero: principles for successful behaviour change initiativesFREE ⇲
Fairphone's Impact 2021 FREE ⇲
Global Circular Material: The Big 5 - and their story behind FREE ⇲
Securing Technology-Critical Metals Global FREE ⇲
Motion Handbook: Developing a Transformative Theory of Change FREE ⇲
Towards a more resource-efficient and circular economy FREE ⇲
Ecodesign Criteria for Consumer Textile FREE ⇲
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170 actions to combat climate change FREE ⇲
Behavioural Science Report FREE ⇲
Achieving Circularity for Single-Use PlasticsFREE ⇲
Burning Questions – Pathways to a circular plastic packaging system in GermanysFREE ⇲
Engineering for Sustainable DevelopmentFREE ⇲
Making the Circular Economy Count FREE ⇲
Delivering On Circularity FREE ⇲
The Persistence of Technology. Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal FREE ⇲
Circular Business Models. Redefining growth for a thriving fashion industryFREE ⇲
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World
Design for RemanufacturingFREE ⇲
This Is Distributed DesignFREE ⇲
2020
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
Upstream Innovation: a guide to packaging solutionsFREE ⇲
Planning a Swedish Collection and Sorting Plant for Used TextilesFREE ⇲
Feasibility of Conditional DesignFREE ⇲
Feasibility of Fashion RemanufacturingFREE ⇲
Feasibility of ServitizationFREE ⇲
Remanufacturing of deadstock and customer claims apparelFREE ⇲
Preserving value in EU industrial materialsFREE ⇲
Norsk Ombruk - The benefits case for remanufacturingFREE ⇲
The promise and limits of Urban MiningFREE ⇲
Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices
Re- MadeFRE E ⇲
Circular Business Model Design GuideFREE ⇲
Circular Business Models - Developing a Sustainable Future
The Architecture of Waste: Design for a Circular Economy
Biodegradability of Plastics in the Open EnvironmentFREE ⇲
Reusable VS single-use Packaging. A review of environmental impactsFREE ⇲
Towards sustainable packaging materialsFREE ⇲
The circular economy: Going digitalFREE ⇲
Electronic waste and the Circular EconomyFREE ⇲
ReValu-Parts. Rethinking the Value of Used PartsFREE ⇲
Inspiration guide - Circular designFREE ⇲
Design for a circular economy. Reducing the impacts of the products we useFREE ⇲
Recycling in the Circular EconomyFREE ⇲
TerraCycle - A Circular Economy Business Model CaseFREE ⇲
Circular Economy for a Sustainable FutureFREE ⇲
Library of Things: A Cornerstone of the Real Sharing Economy FREE ⇲
Guidelines for circular product design and developmentFREE ⇲
Sustainable Packaging GuidelinesFREE ⇲
Ecodesign - A Life Cycle Approach for a Sustainable Future
Quantified potentialFREE ⇲
Internet Of Waste. The Case For a Green Digital Economy FREE ⇲
2019
Design for the Real World
Recycling
Food
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Teaching Circular Design - A Handbook for EducatorsFREE ⇲
Remanufacturing in the Circular Economy: Operations, Engineering and Logistics
Innovation for Sustainability: Business Transformations Towards a Better World
Textiles and the environment in a circular economyFREE ⇲
Circular Fashion Advocacy A Strategy Towards A Circular Fashion Industry In EuropeFREE ⇲
Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative ConsumptionFREE ⇲
Circular Value Creation -FREE ⇲
Reuse - Rethink PackagingFREE ⇲
The Nordic Market for Circular EconomyFREE ⇲
Pluriverse - A Post-Development Dictionary
Plastic food and drink packagingFREE ⇲
Recycle, Reuse, Renew: Food packaging pledges and promises in the fight against plastic pollutionFREE ⇲
Principles for Purposeful BusinessFREE ⇲
A New Circular Vision for ElectronicsFREE ⇲
Circularity Workbook: Guiding the Future of DesignFREE ⇲
Reuse and recycling of plastic packaging for private consumersFREE ⇲
Circular Product Design FREE ⇲
Tools and Ethics for Applied Behavioural Insights: The BASIC Toolkit FREE ⇲
Behaviour change, public engagement and Net Zero FREE ⇲
Sustainable Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Management
2018
Products That Flow: Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Bio Design: Nature, Science, Creativity
Designs for the Pluriverse
Re-Defining Value - The Manufacturing Revolution
Politics of the Everyday
Designing for the Circular Economy
Business Models in the Circular Economy: Concepts, Examples and Theory
Designing Sustainable Energy for All: Sustainable Product-Service System Design Applied to Distributed Renewable Energy
Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage
Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research
Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research
Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060FREE ⇲
Circular and Sharing Economy StudyFREE ⇲
Resource Productivity and the Circular Economy: The opportunities for the UK economyFREE ⇲
2017
The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design
Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World
Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design
Sustainable Manufacturing: Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives
The responsible object : a history of design ideology for the future
The Long View - Exploring Product Lifetime ExtensionFREE ⇲
Circular by Design - Products in the circular economyFREE ⇲
Amorim - The Future is our PresentFREE ⇲
Towards sustainable packagingFREE ⇲
Our waste, our resources: a strategy for EnglandFREE ⇲
Business Transformation and the Circular EconomyFREE ⇲
Behavioural Study on Consumers’ Engagement in the Circular EconomyFREE ⇲
London's Circular Economy Route MapFREE ⇲
Best Practices in Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Management FREE ⇲
Circular Business Models in the Mobile Phone IndustryFREE ⇲
Textile-to-Textile RecyclingFREE ⇲
Circular economy: Measuring innovation in the product chainFREE ⇲
The future of spare parts is 3D FREE ⇲
LIFE and the Circular Economy FREE ⇲
Resource Efficiency: Potential and EconomicFREE ⇲
2016
Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World
Circular Economy, Industrial Ecology and Short Supply Chain
Sustainable Consumption : Design, Innovation and Practice
Challenging Consumption: Pathways to a More Sustainable Future
Circular economy potential for climate change mitigationFREE ⇲
2015
Materials and Sustainable Development
Design, When Everybody Designs. An introduction to Design for Social Innovation
Sustainability
Handbook of Research on Sustainable Consumption
3D Printing with Biomaterials: Towards a Sustainable and Circular Economy
Sustainable Materials without the hot air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and with Less New Material
The circular economy: Moving from theory to practiceFREE ⇲
Remanufacturing Market StudyFREE ⇲
Remanufacturing Future Market ReportFREE ⇲
Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices
Growth within: a circular economy vision for a competitive EuropeFREE ⇲
A longer lifetime for products: Benefits for consumers and companiesFREE ⇲
Strategies to improve design and testing for clothing longevityFREE ⇲
Circular Economy Business ToolkitFREE ⇲
A circular economy for smart devices FREE ⇲
Circular Economy and Environmental Priorities for Business FREE ⇲
2014
Products That Last: Product Design for Circular Business Models
Sustainability in Engineering Design: An Undergraduate Text
Designing Sustainability: Making Radical-changes in a Material World
Creating sustainable innovation through design for behaviour change: full project report
The Guide to the Circular Economy: Capturing Value and Managing Material Risk
Handbook of Recycling
Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Degrowth: A Vocubalary for a New Era
Towards the Circular Economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chainsFREE ⇲
DIT DevelopmentFREE ⇲
2013
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Okala Practitioner Applying Ecological Design
The Handbook of Design for Sustainability
Handbook of Sustainable Engineering
Motivating Change - Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment
Investigating the role of design in the circular economyFREE ⇲
Prevention is better than cureFREE ⇲
Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production
The art of design for disassemblyFREE ⇲
2012
Creating a Sustainable Economy
Environment: Why Read the Classics
Freitag - Out of the Bag
Fashion & sustainability : design for change
The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift
Materials for a Sustainable Future
Economies of Recycling: The Global transformation of materials, values and social relations
Remanufactured Goods: An Overview of the U.S. and Global Industries, Markets, and TradeFREE ⇲
Estimating baseline levels of reuse via C&IFREE ⇲
2011
Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives
The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live
Prolonging Our Metal LifeFREE ⇲
2010
The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs
Longer Lasting Products
Ecodesign Implementation: A Systematic Guidance On Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Product Development
Designing for Re-use
Linkages of Sustainability
Recycle: the Essential Guide
Product Design in the Sustainable Era
Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing
Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering
Dictionary of Ecodesign: An Illustrated Reference
Information Model for Disassembly forFREE ⇲
2009
Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things
Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development
System Innovation for Sustainability 2: Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Mobility
System Innovation for Sustainability 3: Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production ― Food and Agriculture
The Durable Corporation. Strategies for Sustainable Development
Making the most of packaging. A strategy for a low-carbon economyFREE ⇲
Remanufacturing in the UKFREE ⇲
Changing energy behaviour FREE ⇲
1000 New Eco Designs and Where to Find Them
2008
System Innovation for Sustainability 1: Perspectives on Radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production
Wabi-Sabi, For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
2007
Design for Sustainability: A Practical Approach
Adventures in EcoDesign of Electronic Products FREE ⇲
Promoting Sustainable ConsumptionFREE ⇲
2006
Made to Break Technology and Obsolescence in America
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice
The Performance Economy
Remanufacturing and Product Design: Designing for the 7th GenerationFREE ⇲
Ecological Design
Design Guidelines for Sustainable PackagingFREE ⇲
Product Design and Life Cycle Assessment FREE ⇲
Product Design for the Environment: A Life Cycle Approach
2005
The Logic of Sufficiency
Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy
Greening the Industrial Facility
2004
Eternally Yours: time in design
The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
2003
ECODESIGN Pilot: Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
2002
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature
The Eco-design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office
A Thousand Shades of Green: Sustainable Strategies for Competitive Advantage
Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook Good. Environmental Design and Manufacturing
2001
Design and Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods
Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future
Information Systems and the Environment
2000
How to do EcoDesign?: a guide for environmentally and economically sound design
Fatal Consumption:
Human factors/ergonomics handbook for the design for ease of maintenanceFREE ⇲
1999
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
1998
Design for Environment: Creating Eco-Efficient Products and Processes
The Ecology of Industry. Sector and Linkages
Upsizing: The Road to Zero Emissions- More Jobs, More Income and No Pollution
The Role of Product Design in Post – Industrial Society
Industrial Development and Environmental Degradation: A Source Book on the Origins of Global Pollution
1997
Ecodesign: A Promising Approach to Sustainable Production and Consumption
Eternally Yours: Visions on Product Design
The Industrial Green Game. Implications for Environmental Design and Management
How Things Don't Work
Designing and developing maintainable products and systemsFREE ⇲
Green Goods? Consumers, Product Labels and the EnvironmentFREE ⇲
1996
Product Development and the Environment
“Deep Design, Pathways to a Livable Future
1995
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water
Eco Design, Environmentally Sound Packaging and Graphic Design
1994
The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems
1993
Design for Society
1992
Green products by design. Choices for a Cleaner Environment
1991
Green Design
Green Design, Design for the Environment
1990
Our Common Future
The Lifetime of a Durable Good.
1989 - 1980
Design for the Real World (1984)
Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment (1989)
Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design
1979 - 1970
Design Nature and Revolution Toward a Critical Eco (1972)
Small is Beautiful
Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value
Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design (1978)
1969 - 1960
The Waste Makers (1960)
1950 - 1900
Selling Mrs. Consumer (1929)
