CfSD Research

 

Research and Projects

 

The Centre for Sustainable Design is involved in a wide range of research and training projects.

Research studies undertaken by The Centre for Sustainable Design include:

New Business Models (Graham Adams, Joachim Hafkesbrink, Stefan Steiner), September 2005
The Centre for Sustainable Design, for Ecolife 2 (Full Report ) project.

Product-Service Systems in the Need Area 'Information and Communication' (Martin Charter, Graham Adams and Tom Clark), 30th October 2004
The Centre for Sustainable Design, for SusProNet (Full Report ) project.

The 'state of the art' in eco-design in the Chinese, Taiwan and Hong Kong electronics sectors (Martin Charter, Joy Boyce and Dave Burrell), PERA, April 2004
Completed for Dti and published. See www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba for full report.

Functional Sales Report - Sustainable Business Opportunities (Graham Adams and Martin Charter) March 2004
The Centre for Sustainable Design, completed for the Thematic Network ECOLIFE II

Sustainable marketing: Understanding the obstacles to and opportunities for involvement of marketing professionals in sustainable consumption (Martin Charter, Lynne Elvins and Graham Adams), February 2004
Report completed on the marketing and sustainability for SNTT as part of Japan's Sustainable Consumption research programme . Executive Summary

Integrated Product Policy (IPP), consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction (Martin Charter and Tom Clark), March 2003
Completed an analysis and future implications, The Centre for Sustainable Design, for AIST, Japan

Eco-design in the UK electronics sector: (Martin Charter), Published March 2003
A case study, The Centre for Sustainable Design. See Eco-design under 'E' in the 'Technical Directory' for full text at www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba

The 'state of the art' in eco-design in the Japanese electronics sector (Martin Charter, Eric Billet, Joy Boyce, Clive Grinyer and John Simmonds) November 2002
The Centre for Sustainable Design, completed for DTI. See 'J' in Country Directory at www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba for full report.

An eco-design route map for the Taiwan electronics sector (Martin Charter and Tom Clark) October 2002
The Centre for Sustainable Design, completed for the Taiwan Department of Industrial Technology and the Electronics Testing CentreI.

Ideas-based sustainable product competition (Martin Charter and Gary Owen), 2002
The Centre for Sustainable Design, completed for Hampshire County Council.

Inventory of environment-related research in the electrical and electronics sector in Europe (edited Arnold Tukker, Martin Charter Alexandra Kielkiewicz-Young and G.J. Ellen), 2001
Completed for TNO, Delft:Netherlands.

Stimulating sustainable trade in electronics: challenges, realities and strategies for the Indian components sector (Martin Charter acted as advisor to authors: Mohammed Saqib, Yashika Singh and Ritu Kumar), February 2001
International Institute for Environmental & Development (IIED), Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS) and Commonwealth Science Council (CSC), published by Ragiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi:India.

Supply chain strategy and evaluation I & II (Martin Charter, Alexandra Kielkiewicz-Young, Alex Young and Andrew Hughes), January 2001
Project SIGMA, London: UK,

Eco-design: strategies for dissemination for SMEs, Part I: Overall analysis and conclusions (edited by Arnold Tukker, Erick Haag and Peter Eder, Martin Charter and Inga Belmane), October 2000
European Science and Technology Observatory (ESTO) project report, Joint Research Council-Institute for Prospective Technological Studies for DG Environment (EC), Seville:Spain, (downloadable via EUR 19740 EN)

Eco-design: strategies for dissemination for SMEs, Part II (edited by Arnold Tukker, Erick Haag and Peter Eder, Martin Charter and Inga Belmane), October 2000
European Science and Technology Observatory (ESTO) project report, Joint Research Centre-Institute for Prospective Technological Studies for DG Environment (EC), Seville:Spain, (downloadable via ESTO)

Eco-design: European State of the Art, Part I: Comparative analysis and conclusions (edited by Arnold Tukker, Erick Haag and Peter Eder, Martin Charter and Inga Belmane), European, May 2000
European Science and Technology Observatory (ESTO) project report, Joint Research Centre-Institute for Prospective Technological Studies for DG Environment (EC), Seville:Spain, (downloadable via EUR 19583 EN )

Eco-design: European State of the Art, Part II (edited by Arnold Tukker, Erick Haag and Peter Eder, Martin Charter and Inga Belmane), May 2000
European Science and Technology Observatory (ESTO) project report, Joint Research Centre-Institute for Prospective Technological Studies for DG Environment (EC), Seville:Spain, (downloadable via ESTO )

Eco-design training and employment (Martin Charter and Inga Belmane), February 2000
The Centre for Sustainable Design, completed report for DG Environment (EC).

Identification of the research agenda and issues in relation to clean design (Martin Charter and Tom Clark), February 1997
The Centre for Sustainable Design, completed report for DG Environment (EC).

Some of CfSD projects have their own pages on the CfSD site. These include:

IPP-EPD
Integrated Product Policy and Eco-Product Development (IPP-EPD) project

CfSD is also involved in projects that have Internet pages outside of the CfSD site. These include:

EcoLife
The EcoLife project looks at closing the loop on electr(on)ic products and domestic appliances from product planning to 'end-of-life' technologies. The aim of the EcoLife project is to contribute to the elimination or at least mitigation of priority environmental problems by developing solutions of wide ranging and general applicability in the electric, electromechanical and electronic industry.

SCARE
The Strategic Comprehensive Approach for Electronics Recycling and Re-use (SCARE) project has been set up under the EUREKA Umbrella CARE "VISION 2000" to carry out actual research projects which produce tangible results out of the ideas and strategies that have been identified within the activities of the umbrella project.

SIGMA
CfSD has been invited to be a project steering committee member for the Sustainability Integrated Guidelines for Management (SIGMA) project. In addition, CfSD has been selected as the lead research organisation on 'sustainability and supply chain management' research stream.

 

For information on other projects CfSD is involved in, please contact us. For contact details click here.

 

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