T is volume is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations 'Decade on Education for Sustainable Development' (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products. The book provides a comprehensive framework and a practical tool to support the design process. This is an important text for those interested in the product development processes.

Carlo Vezzoli is Full Professor of Design at the Politecnico di Milano University and within this Institution for 20 years he has been researching and teaching on design for sustainability. Nowadays he holds the courses of productDesign for environmental Sustainability andSystem Design for Sustainability,he is the head of both the research groupDesign and system Innovation for Sustainability (DIS)and the research labLeNS_Lab Polimi.He has delivered worldwide (outside Italy) courses and lectures in universities inAfrica (Botswana, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda),Asia (China, India, Japan and Thailand); TheAmericas (Brazil; Colombia and Mexico), andEurope (Estonia, Finland, France, Norway, The Netherlands and United Kingdom).

He presented in international congresses (22 as keynote speeches), inEurope (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and United Kingdom), theAmericas(Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and United States),Africa(South Africa, Uganda), andAsia (India and China).

Since 2007 he is founder of theLearning Network on Sustainability which is a worldwide multipolar network of more than 100 design Universities covering all continents, with the aim of diffusing design for sustainability with an open ethos. Nowadays he is coordinating the LeNSin EU funded (Erasmus+ program) 3 years project involving 36 Universities as partners from Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, India, China, United Kingdom, The Netherland, Finland and Italy.