Although environmental education and education for sustainable development have become wellestablished areas of scholarship and practice, there has not been a similar development focused on “industrial ecology education.” A review of the historical context and guiding philosophies for each of these areas finds many similarities, as well as key differences. Environmental education traces its mod...

An exploration of how its different streams can be used in business organizations

This article argues that industrial ecology has, to date, largely engaged with the ecological sciences at a superficial level, which has both attracted criticism of the field and limited its practical application for sustainable industrial development. On the basis of an analysis of the principle of succession, the role of waste, and the concept of diversity, the article highlights some of the ...

The exchange of wastes, by-products, and energy among closely situated firms is one of the distinctive features of the applications of industrial ecological principles.This at= ticle examines the industrial district at Kalundborg, Denmark, often labeled as an “industrial ecosystem” or “industrial symbiosis” because ofthe many links among the firms.The forces that led to its evolution and to the...

This article proposes a multi-disciplinary and systemic approach to sustainable consumption that combines environmental considerations of energy usage from a life-cycle perspective with a social understanding of consumption grounded in economic anthropology. The goal is to understand both consumption patterns and drivers, with a focus on household energy consumption used for cooling in Metro Ma...

1. Industrial Ecology and Sustainability 1.1 Policyand Material-related Developments 2. Basic Concepts of Industrial Ecology 2.1 The Biological Analogy 2.2 Types of Industrial Ecology 2.3 Limits of the Analogy 2.4 Shortcomings of Interlinked Systems and Strategies 3. Industrial Ecology and the relation to tools and methods 3.1 Life-cycle Approach 3.2 Material Flow Analysis 3.2.1 Draft IN-OUT Ba...

Humans have a dual nature. We are subject to the same natural laws and forces as other species yet dominate global ecology and exhibit enormous variation in energy use, cultural diversity, and apparent social organization. We suggest scientists tackle these challenges with a macroecological approach-using comparative statistical techniques to identify deep patterns of variation in large dataset...

The traditional linear industries led to dwindling resources and even exhaustion, as well as worsening pollution, it is a short-sighted unsustainable developing mode of the economy. Ecological industry is to realize the harmonious development between economy and environment by planning industrial systems according to material cycle in the natural ecological system. The Eco-industry coordinates ...

In some ways, sustainable engineering may be thought of as the operational arm of industrial ecology: first use the methodologies of industrial ecology, such as life-cycle assessment, materials flow accounting, or product and process matrix analysis, to determine relevant social and environmental considerations; then use sustainable engineering methods to integrate that knowledge into process, ...

Industrial ecology is a new approach to the industrial design of products and processes and the implementation of sustainable manufacturing strategies. It is a concept in which an industrial system is viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems but in concert with them. Industrial ecology seeks to optimize the total materials cycle from virgin material to finished material, to componen...