EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems II (PDF)

Shinichi Fukushige is a professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University. After obtaining his doctor's degree in precision machinery engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2006, he began work at Osaka University as an assistant professor. Since 2014, he served as an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University before moving to Waseda University in 2020. His current research interests include product life cycle design and management, simulation of circular economy, environmentally conscious product and service design, and circular business design.





Hideki Kobayash is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He graduated from Hokkaido University, and earned PhD in Design Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Prior to the currentposition, he was engaged to Toshiba, as a senior manager of Corporate Research & Development Center in the area of environmental and sustainable technologies. Membership in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineer (JSME), Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), etc. Co-director of Italian Design Summer School (IDSS) in Bologna University. His major research interests include sustainable system design and management, sustainable consumption and production (SCP), sustainable manufacturing.





Eiji Yamasue is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He completed his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. His research interests include industrial ecology, energy and resources, etc. He has authored several books and has published 120 papers with over 1800 citations to his credit.





Keishiro Hara is a professor and the co-director of Center for Future