Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Clift, Roland (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Druckman, Angela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Environmental management.; Waste management.; Sustainable development.; Industrial organization.; Environmental economics.; Sustainable Development.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Environmental Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Environmental Management.

How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient material-efficient economies? Wha...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• General reflections
• The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: sustainability ‘after the crisis’
• Impacts of global trade flows
• Stocks and flows in the performance economy
• The Embeddedness of carbon in UK Lifestyles
• Ethics of Industrial Ecology
• Complexity and prediction
• Urban metabolism
• Industrial Symbiosis
• Industrial Ecology and the Solidarity Economy
• Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries
• Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management
• Social sciences in Industrial Ecology
• Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
• Prospective Models of Society’s Future Metabolism
• Planetary boundaries and sustainable business
• Working with policymakers
• Portugal’s national waste plan
• The Industrial Ecology of the automobile.