Mitsutaka Matsumoto & Yasushi Umeda 
Design for Innovative Value Towards a Sustainable Society [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of EcoDesign 2011: 7th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing

Since the first Eco Design International Symposium held in 1999, this symposium has led the research and practices of environmentally conscious design of products, services, manufacturing systems, supply chain, consumption, as well as economics and society. Eco Design 2011 — the 7th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing — was successfully held in the Japanese old capital city of Kyoto, on November 30th – December 2nd, 2011. The subtitle of Eco Design 2011 is to “design for value innovation towards sustainable society.” During this event, presenters discussed the way to achieve both drastic environmental consciousness and value innovation in order to realise a sustainable society.