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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Weitere Verfasser: Clift, Roland (Herausgegeben von), Druckman, Angela (Herausgegeben von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2016.
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Online-Zugang:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20571-7
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.