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Naoko Tojo

Naoko Tojo

Senior lecturer

Naoko Tojo

Product Standards for Multiple-Function Products in Product Policy

Author

  • Tomohiro Tasaki
  • Carl Dalhammar
  • Naoko Tojo

Editor

  • Yasushi Umeda
  • Shigehito Ibuka
  • Mitsutaka Matsumoto
  • Keijiro Matsui

Summary, in English

Emergence of multiple-function products (MFPs) poses a variety of challenges and risks for achieving sustainable consumption and production as well as fair consumer society and universal design. We

overviewed MFPs from these viewpoints and then, focusing on product standard as a means to create mechanisms to reduce environmental loads from products, elucidated advantages and limitation of five

approaches of standard-setting for MFPs. The five approches examined were (1) neglecting a multiple function, (2) individual presentation of every function, (3) integrated evaluation of functions, (4)

segementation of products, and (5) use of frontier analysis.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

476-481

Publication/Series

Design for innovative value towards sustainable society --- Proceedings of Eco-Design 2011: 7th International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing

Volume

7

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • multi-functionality
  • product standards
  • frontier products

Status

Published