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With the advent of the 21st century, a number of emerging sustainability issues, associated largely with the implications of global warming and increasing greenhouse gas emissions , have posed new challenges for governments, manufacturers, and industrial design practitioners and educators. These issues include those identified from the available literature relate to Environmental Management Systems, Increases in Off-shore Manufacturing, Sustainable Procurement, Developments in E-commerce, 'Green' Marketing, Developments in waste management and recycling, Challenges for Environmental Legislators, After-sales Product Support, Developments in Ecodesign Tools, The Opportunities and Challenges of Rapid Prototyping, Emerging Sustainability Issues for Educators. For industrial designers, the challenges arising from the emerging issues relate not only to their desire to be ethical, but also to their need to remain competitive. The focus of this thesis is upon the sustainability issues that have emerged in the early years of the 21st century. It looks first at the foundations of a sustainability consciousness and some traditional attitudes and approaches to sustainability that have been adopted by industrial design stakeholders since the 1970s. It draws upon the work of James (2001) and others to develop a theoretical framework on sustainability issues that are emerging in the early 21st century. This framework is then used to underpin an investigation conducted among industrial designers and manufacturers on sustainability issues that have emerged since approximately 2000, and their implications for the sector. Following identification and analysis of the emerging issues, a number of strategies are proposed for industrial design stakeholders to meet the challenges posed by the emerging sustainability issues. 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With the advent of the 21st century, a number of emerging sustainability issues, associated largely with the implications of global warming and increasing greenhouse gas emissions , have posed new challenges for governments, manufacturers, and industrial design practitioners and educators. These issues include those identified from the available literature relate to Environmental Management Systems, Increases in Off-shore Manufacturing, Sustainable Procurement, Developments in E-commerce, 'Green' Marketing, Developments in waste management and recycling, Challenges for Environmental Legislators, After-sales Product Support, Developments in Ecodesign Tools, The Opportunities and Challenges of Rapid Prototyping, Emerging Sustainability Issues for Educators. For industrial designers, the challenges arising from the emerging issues relate not only to their desire to be ethical, but also to their need to remain competitive. 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