Sustainable product development

Sustainable product development (SPD) is a method for product development that incorporates a Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural Step (TNS) framework. As the demand for products continues to increase around the world and environmental factors like climate change increasingly affect policies - and thus business - it becomes more and more of a competitive advantage for businesses to consider sustainability aspects early on in the product development process.^[1]

SPD is not limited to the actual product development, but also the product design. Green design which is a part of SPD has two main goals: the prevention of waste and to minimize environmental impact. Environmental impact involves: deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and resource/material management, etc. The early stages of design tend to be the areas that effect the environment the worst, the extraction and refining.^[2]^[3] The SPD orginates from the 1972 UN conference of human enviroment after the 1987 Brundtland Report, Our Common Future, and the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Improvement.

The foremost imperative advantage of sustainable product development is the decrease of a business's natural affect. By making utilize of renewable and recyclable materials, associations can diminish the sum of pollution and waste they create whereas also utilizing less assets to form the same calibre of items. Aspects such as enviromental conservation, saving water and not overusing it, renewable energies, supporting maintainable versatility. Also one of the most important one's is natural resources and making sure that we can also renewable and recyclable materials.

After the next 30 years, the natural resources just gets greater and greater and the population just keeps on going up and the increase in global food demand will be increasingly in high demand. Achieving sustatinabilty is very doable as long as we all get help within us.

https://www.purdueglobal.edu/blog/student-life/45-sustainability-resources/

https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/the-science-of-sustainability/

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^ Mike Gordon; Chris Musso; Eric Rebentisch & Nisheeth Gupta (January 2010). "The path to successful new products". McKinsey Quarterly. Businesses with the best product-development track records stand apart from their less-successful peers in three crucial ways
^ Weenen, J.C. Van (1995). "Towards Sustainable Product Development" (PDF). Journal of Cleaner Production. 3 (1–2): 95–100. doi:10.1016/0959-6526(95)00062-J.
^ Wilhelm, Kevin (2014). Making Sustainability Stick. Pearson Education.

Byggeth S. H., Broman G., Holmberg J., Lundqvist U., and Robèrt K-H., A Method for Sustainable Product Development in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Third International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering - TMCE2000, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, April 18–21, 2000.
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Charter, M. (1998) Design for Environmental Sustainability, Foresight, Natural Resources and Environment Panel: Cleaner Technologies and Processes (London, UK: Office of Science and Technology, Department of Trade & Industry).
Martin and Schouten, 2012. Sustainable Marketing

Literature[edit]

Sophie Hallstedt. "A foundation for sustainable product development" (PDF).
Information Resources Management Association (2011). Green Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. Hershey, New York. ISBN 9781609604738.
Charter, M. & Tischner, U. (2001). Sustainable Solutions. Greenleaf Publishing. ISBN 978-1-874719-36-6.

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