Design For Sustainable Development

This thematic collection aims at creating a forum for encouraging and debating the design for sustainable development.  High-quality scientific contributions are needed to provide a coherent and widely accepted approach for designs that maximize the positive and minimize the negative environmental impacts while bringing about positive social and economic changes.  To reach global development goals and sustainable growth, the private and public sectors need to undergo a large and systemic transition.  The rethinking of existing systems to equitably meet the needs of a growing global population while ensuring future environmental viability is an essential and priority task for today’s society.