Victor Papanek’s scientific contributions

... Subsequently, the focus shifted to design for profit in the 1970s and ethical concerns such as green consumerism and corporate social responsibility with the 1980s and 1990s. These approaches were researched in ecology (Papanek, 1971), product planning, and economics (Cramer and Stevels, 2006;Crul et al., 2009). In the late 1990s, D4S approach gained importance as a key area of research that integrated ecological and social responsibilities and profitability (Bhamra and Lofthouse, 2016;Crul and Diehl, 2006) (Figure 1). ...

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Design for sustainability approach on material selection prefer-ences of LEED certificated buildings