EcoDesign Accelerating Social Transformation: Volume II

This book is the second volume of the books highlight cutting-edge EcoDesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in EcoDesign. Featuring selected papers presented at EcoDesign2025: The 14th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, it also includes diverse, interdisciplinary approaches to foster EcoDesign research and activities. In the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it addresses the need for the manufacturing industry to design innovations for social transformation, taking into account technological developments, legislation, and consumer lifestyles. Further, the book discusses the concept of circular economy, which originated in Europe and aims to increase resource efficiency by shifting away from the linear economy.

This Volume II contains topics related to Life Cycle Evaluation, Sustainability Indices, Digital Technologies for Sustainability, Sustainable Social Infrastructure, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Finance and Investment for Sustainability, and Policy, Legislation and Social Activities. The readers of this volume can catch up the latest achievement about these research fields.

Dr. Tomomi Nonaka specializes in production systems engineering and service engineering. She obtained a Ph.D in Systems Engineering at Keio University, Japan. She graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University, and entered the Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University as a first-year student, completing the master's and doctoral programs. After serving as a specially appointed assistant professor at the Graduate School of Systems Informatics, Kobe University, an assistant professor at the Department of Management Systems Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, and an associate professor at the College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan University, she became a professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University. In recent years, she has been engaged in research on sustainable business and social system design.