The overall goal of this project was to formulate a set of economic development objectives that draw on food-related industrial symbiosis opportunities in New Haven, Connecticut. Our research and analysis looked at existing food sector operations within the city’s boundaries and incorporated potential new businesses that might be established in New Haven, especially in the waterfront district. ...

1. Current views of anthropogenic environments emphasize the extreme novelty of urban and industrial ecosystems. Proponents of reconciliation ecology argue that we need to use such habitats to conserve biodiversity, given the inadequacy of natural reserve systems. 2. Some of the harshest anthropogenic ecosystems may be able to support indigenous biodiversity due to their structural or functiona...

This review concerns the methodological challenges that industrial ecology faces in integrating natural and social sciences. Network analysis can be seen as the most promising method to mediate between industrial ecology’s overall systems approach and the complex structures found in society. It is a well established method across scientific disciplines, including the social sciences. It has bee...