Marie-France Vernier (2024), Eco-Design and Ecological Transition: Questioning the Economic Model , Smart Innovation, London, ISTE/Wiley, 208 p.

Eco-Design and Ecological Transition:Questioning the Economic Model is a welcome and necessary contribution to eco-design theories and initiatives.Eco-design is an essential dimension of sustainable development that needed to be thoroughly developed by a scholarly expert.This book responds to this requirement, and enables us to delve into different schools of thought and concepts regarding eco-design, based on different empirical cases.Marie-France Vernier's publication follows an evolutionary and systemic perspective.Her work is structured along the following chapters.The first chapter deals with the limits of the contemporary economic model, that analyzes social and environmental phenomena under the lens of a linear framework.The second chapter analyzes ecodesign as a source of environmental innovation, and as an essential step in ecological transition.It incorporates the work of the precursors of eco-design that revolves around two distinct definitions (technocentric eco-design and sustainable design).The third chapter analyzes how eco-design approaches have contributed to ecological transition, based on empirical evidence.Finally, a fourth chapter emphasizes the limits and perspectives of eco-design as a way to implement effective ecological transition.Vernier's book provides comprehensive references that not only stem from economics, but also from management, marketing, sociology, planning, engineering, ecology, law, history, design science and grey literature (OECD, European Commission, IPCC, World Bank, ADEME...).