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1. The Life Cycle Assessment of Digital Professional Photography in Iran -- 2. Environmental evaluation of Toner Cartridge Remanufacturing -- 3. Life cycle resource use of air conditioner from the perspective of total material requirement -- 4. Resource efficiency quantification of a long-life product considering service activities through lifecycle -- 5. A study on Circular Fashion: Profitability and Environmental Impact Analysis -- 6. A Hydrogen Fueling Performance Analysis of Metal Hydride For a Fuel Cell Assisted Bicycle Using GF-08 Cooling System -- 7. State prediction and parts replacement of a manipulator based on assembly model -- 8. Adapting Lifecycle Impact Assessment Methodology to Quantify New Product Design Risks -- 9. Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wastewater Treatment in Ulaanbaatar and a Potential Approach for Emission Reductions -- 10. Plastic waste trade flows inthe Southern African Region from 2016 to 2020 -- 11. Identification of most affected impact categories of waste water-based biogas production and use -- 12. Evaluation of evolving waste management strategies in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia: A life-cycle assessment approach -- 13. Comparative analysis of wastewater activated sludge recycling system in China: environmental and economic performances -- 14. Evaluation of micro-level circularity indicators using agent-based modelling -- 15. Energy savings evaluation based on utilizing Recycled PET Bottles in concrete blocks in Iran -- 16. Techno-economic assessment of recycling obsolete two-wheelers in ASEAN : the case of Myanmar and Cambodia -- 17. Consideration of CO2 emission reduction potential by utilizing recycled automobile parts in China -- 18. Evaluation of decarbonization based on environmental footprint indicators in the power generation in Japan -- 19. GIS-Based Analysis of Energy Recovery Potential from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch in Southern Thailand -- 20. Discussion on the Reuse of Suboptimal Food through the Perspective of Sustainable Food Circle -- 21. Environmental Impact Assessment of Tomato Consumption Using Life Cycle Assessment from Cultivation to Cooking -- 22. Food Loss and Waste: Mixed analysis from the Circular Food Economy -- 23. Application of disability adjusted life years in risk assessment for total human mercury exposure in China and Japan - a meta-analysis -- 24. COVID19 Pandemic Impact on Energy Consumption – A Survey of College Students in Japan -- 25. Modelling Customer Preference for Sustainability Information via Clustering Analysis -- 26. Smartphone App Design for Product Use Sustainability Evaluation -- 27. Undertaking Scenario Analysis of the Diffusion of Car Sharing Services: A Case Study in Bangkok, Thailand -- 28. Environmental, health, and economic co-benefits assessment of the electrification of public transport in Delhi (India) -- 29. A scenario analysis of transportation system in Vietnam based on life cycle simulation.-.

1. Modeling local product development through multidisciplinary collaboration: A case study in Nagara, Chiba Prefecture in Japan -- 2. Developing reusable packaging for FMCG: Consumers' perceptions of benefits and risks of refillable and returnable packaging systems -- 3. Design, evaluation, and acceptance of advanced energy efficient houses for Thailand -- 4. Explore the Framework Construction of Gamification Applied to Basic Design Teaching -- 5. Future Design Based Policy Making Card Game For High School Education -- 6. Frugal innovation in BoP communities: co-design of a technical solution to support community agriculture in Mexico -- 7. Exploring frugal innovation as an eco-design strategy: a case study of a water access solution at the BoP -- 8. A methodical concept for the development of sustainable products through radical innovations -- 9. Thinking Model for Japanese Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Innovation Explicated by OntoIS -- 10. Applying regenerative sustainability principles in manufacturing -- 11. The Potential for Reverse Innovation in Sustainable Development: A Knowledge-Directed Outlook -- 12. Finding applications for secondary raw materials -- 13. Digital product passports in circular economy – case battery passport -- 14. Data Platforms as tools for circular economy -- 15. Artificial Intelligence for Process Control In Remanufacturing -- 16. Machine Recognition of ICs in Recycling Process of Small-sized Electronics -- 17. Exploring new way media information of the product that promote sustainable consumption and production -- 18. Towards digital circular design -- 19. Circular furniture design: A case study from Swedish furniture industry -- 20. Current challenges in the lifetime extension of smartphones -- 21. Dielectric Elastomer Transducer (High Efficiency Actuator and Power Generation System) -- 22. Sustainable Services in Convenience Stores: a case study of food loss label -- 23. An Overview of Sustainability Held During 1992 to 2021 in China - An Industrial Design Perspective -- 24. Increased personal protective and Medical Equipment manufacturing to fight COVID-19: an egregious approach for the environment -- 25. Silver Recovery from Spent Photovoltaic Panel Sheets using Electrical Wire Explosion -- 26. Procedure Model to support the Recycling-oriented Design of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles -- 27. Holistic Eco-design Framework Developed Through a Case Study in the Automotive Industry -- 28. Depth and detail or quick and easy? Benefits and drawbacks of two approaches to define sustainability criteria in product development -- 29. Designing Interventions for Sustainability: A conceptual framework for information scoping in the design research phase -- 30. A Sustainable Product Service System (PSS) Design for Retail Food Loss and Waste: Research Through Design -- 31. Environmental and Economical Design Problem of Upgrading and Remanufacturing Option Selection -- 32. Renewable Energy System in the Off-grid Communities: The Systems' Characteristics and Storage Technologies -- 33. Optimal Cooling Strategy for Energy Management using Multi-Temperature Acquisition Points in a Protected Cropping Facility -- 34. Price – based demand response programs considering fixed and dynamic price elasticity matrix (PEM) of demand in the wholesale market in Japan -- 35. Wind Turbine Minimum Power Loss Optimization, using Nonlinear Mathematical Programming.

Many rural areas suffer from severe depopulation, and the absence of a university is one reason for outmigration. Where research and education are valued, however, such rural areas can attract scholars and students visiting from universities and other external institutions. Scholarly outputs of research, such as research articles and project reports, particularly those from community-based research (CBR), can themselves become an asset for use by local communities. We consider that CBR can contribute to asset-based community development (ABCD) when a transdisciplinary community of practice (TDCOP) emerges and drives the processes of collaborative creation and use of the knowledge. A particularly critical mechanism, which is currently lacking, is to allow the local community to collect knowledge outputs and make them easily available to interested actors within and outside of the community. We assume that a core tool in this mechanism is an interactive database. It can be equipped with a user interface, allowing enjoyable and active searches, and possibly a mechanism by which users themselves can contribute to gradual development of the database. We formed a study group of researchers and practitioners to conduct a case study in the Noto region of Japan. We identified the existing assets in Noto, including the knowledge created through CBR, and then collected and shared our own experiences and practices, as well as lessons learned from other regions in Japan, to explore the principles of designing a database. A CBR database should not only be a static inventory of past research, but also capable of facilitating new cycles of knowledge co-creation. With a comprehensive and easily accessible inventory of knowledge in place, we conclude that there is high potential in enabling CBR itself to be an asset, which can help achieve ABCD in rural communities.

Satellite observations of Amazon forests show seasonal and interannual variations, but the underlying biological processes remain debated. Here we combined radiative transfer models (RTMs) with field observations of Amazon forest leaf and canopy characteristics to test three hypotheses for satellite-observed canopy reflectance seasonality: seasonal changes in leaf area index, in canopy-surface leafless crown fraction and/or in leaf demography. Canopy RTMs (PROSAIL and FLiES), driven by these three factors combined, simulated satellite-observed seasonal patterns well, explaining c. 70% of the variability in a key reflectance-based vegetation index (MAIAC EVI, which removes artifacts that would otherwise arise from clouds/aerosols and sun–sensor geometry). Leaf area index, leafless crown fraction and leaf demography independently accounted for 1, 33 and 66% of FLiES-simulated EVI seasonality, respectively. These factors also strongly influenced modeled near-infrared (NIR) reflectance, explaining why both modeled and observed EVI, which is especially sensitive to NIR, captures canopy seasonal dynamics well. Our improved analysis of canopy-scale biophysics rules out satellite artifacts as significant causes of satellite-observed seasonal patterns at this site, implying that aggregated phenology explains the larger scale remotely observed patterns. This work significantly reconciles current controversies about satellite-detected Amazon phenology, and improves our use of satellite observations to study climate–phenology relationships in the tropics. No claim to original US Government works New Phytologist © 2017 New Phytologist Trust