Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20571-7 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.