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A handbook of industrial ecology / edited by Robert U. Ayres and Leslie W. Ayres.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2002.Description: xx, 680 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1840645067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4/08 21
LOC classification:
  • TS161 .H363 2002
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Contents
List of tables viii
List of figures xi
List of authors xv
Preface xviii

PART I CONTEXT AND HISTORY
1 Industrial ecology: goals and definitions 3
Reid Lifset and Thomas E. Graedel
2 Exploring the history of industrial metabolism 16
Marina Fischer-Kowalski
3 The recent history of industrial ecology 27
Suren Erkman
4 Industrial ecology and cleaner production 36
Tim Jackson
5 On industrial ecosystems 44
Robert U. Ayres
6 Industrial ecology: governance, laws and regulations 60
Braden R. Allenby
7 Industrial ecology and industrial metabolism: use and misuse of metaphors 70
Allan Johansson

PART II METHODOLOGY
8 Material flow analysis 79
Stefan Bringezu and Yuichi Moriguchi
9 Substance flow analysis methodology 91
Ester van der Voet
10 Physical input–output accounting 102
Gunter Strassert
11 Process analysis approach to industrial ecology 114
Urmila Diwekar and Mitchell J. Small
12 Industrial ecology and life cycle assessment 138
Helias A. Udo de Haes
13 Impact evaluation in industrial ecology 149
Bengt Steen
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14 Environmental accounting and material flow analysis 165
Peter Bartelmus
15 Materials flow analysis and economic modeling 177
Karin Ibenholt
16 Exergy flows in the economy: efficiency and dematerialization 185
Robert U. Ayres
17 Transmaterialization 202
Walter C. Labys
18 Dematerialization and rematerialization as two recurring phenomena of 209
industrial ecology
Sander De Bruyn
19 Optimal resource extraction 223
Matthias Ruth
20 Industrial ecology and technology policy: the Japanese experience 232
Chihiro Watanabe

PART IV INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AT THE
NATIONAL/REGIONAL LEVEL
21 Global biogeochemical cycles 249
Vaclav Smil
22 Material flow accounts: the USA and the world 260
Donald G. Rogich and Grecia R. Matos
23 Industrial ecology: analyses for sustainable resource and materials 288
management in Germany and Europe
Stefan Bringezu
24 Material flow analysis and industrial ecology studies in Japan 301
Yuichi Moriguchi
25 Industrial ecology: an Australian case study 311
Andria Durney
26 Industrial ecology: the UK 323
Heinz Schandl and Niels Schulz
27 Industrial symbiosis: the legacy of Kalundborg 334
John R. Ehrenfeld and Marian R. Chertow

PART V INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AT THE
SECTORAL/MATERIALS LEVEL
28 Material flows due to mining and urbanization 351
Ian Douglas and Nigel Lawson
29 Long-term world metal use: application of industrial ecology in a 365
system dynamics model
Detlef P. van Vuuren, Bart J. Strengers and Bert J.M. de Vries
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30 Risks of metal flows and accumulation 382
Jeroen B. Guinée and Ester van der Voet
31 Material constraints on technology evolution: the case of scarce metals 391
and emerging energy technologies
Björn A. Andersson and Ingrid Råde
32 Wastes as raw materials 405
David T. Allen
33 Heavy metals in agrosystems 421
Simon W. Moolenaar
34 Industrial ecology and automotive systems 432
Thomas E. Graedel, Yusuke Kakizawa and Michael Jensen
35 The information industry 445
Braden R. Allenby

PART VI APPLICATIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
36 Industrial ecology and green design 457
Chris T. Hendrickson, Arpad Horvath, Lester B. Lave
and Francis C. McMichael
37 Industrial ecology and risk analysis 467
Paul R. Kleindorfer
38 Industrial ecology and spatial planning 476
Clinton J. Andrews
39 Industrial estates as model ecosystems 488
Fritz Balkau
40 Closed-loop supply chains 497
V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr and Luk N. van Wassenhove
41 Remanufacturing cases and state of the art 510
Geraldo Ferrer and V. Daniel R. Guide Jr
42 Industrial ecology and extended producer responsibility 521
John Gertsakis, Nicola Morelli and Chris Ryan
43 Life cycle assessment as a management tool 530
Paolo Frankl
44 Municipal solid waste management 542
Clinton J. Andrews
45 Industrial ecology and integrated assessment: an integrated modeling 554
approach for climate change
Michel G.J. den Elzen and Michiel Schaeffer
46 Earth systems engineering and management 566
Braden R. Allenby
References 572
Index 645
Contents vii

Includes bibliographical references (p. 572-644) and index.

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