the aim of this paper is to develop a prediction model of energy demand of iran’s industrial sector. for that matter a markov chain grey model (mcgm) has been proposed to forecast such energy demand. to find the effectiveness of the proposed model, it is then compared with grey model (gm) and regression model. the comparison reveals that the mcgm model has higher precision than those of the gm ...

This paper develops a political–industrial ecology approach to explore the urban water metabolism of Los Angeles, which sprawls for thousands of miles across the American West. Conventional approaches to quantify urban carbon footprints rely on global, national, or regional averages and focus narrowly on improving the efficiency of flows of resources moving into and out of the city. These appro...

Changes in the discipline of environmental science and engineering (ESE) are reviewed and a case is made for continued growth of a new metadiscipline of Sustainability Science. This new field embraces economics, social processes, environmental processes, and industrial ecology. Research opportunities and examples of previous successes are discussed in the areas of: (1) sustainability metrics, (...

Eco-industrial development projects are increasingly popular because of their ability to transform the traditional model of industrial parks into more sustainable forms of economic development. Still, few industrial parks worldwide have achieved the high degree of eco-transformation that characterizes eco-industrial parks (EIPs). Assessing the potential for eco-industrial development at the par...

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The field of industrial ecology applies ecosystem theory to industrial production, human consumption and societies. This article presents a case study of the development of the bio-based economy in the area surrounding the Humber estuary in the North-East of England. The study developed an agent-based model to simulate the evolution of the industrial system. We explain how the qualitative resea...

Strategies for sustainably using biofuels must be thoroughly assessed at several levels. First, the use of biofuels must comply with sustainable development’s main dimensions. Second, the use of biofuels must comply with sustainable transport’s main dimensions. Third, gains from using biofuels strategies must compare favorably to gains from other sustainable transport strategies, such as alteri...

Acknowledgement I thank all the people in this Industrial Ecology MSc programme in the Netherlands for lots of stimulus from many different study fields, especially the ones in CML (Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University) for giving me one of the best internship environments in my experience. Rene Kleijn, who has always supported my thesis as nice supervisor, had been generous f...

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