Industrial Ecology aims to inform decision making about the environmental impacts of industrial production processes by tracking and analyzing resource use and flows of industrial products, consumer products and wastes. Quantifying the patterns of use of materials and energy in different societies is one area of research in Industrial Ecology. An extensive literature is devoted in particular to...

China has become the world’s largest carbon emitter. Its total carbon emission output from fossil fuel combustion and cement production was approximately 10 Gt CO2 in 2013. However, less is known about carbon emissions from the production of industrial materials, such as mineral products (e.g., lime, soda ash, asphalt roofing), chemical products (e.g., ammonia, nitric acid) and metal products (...

Since the_ monumental work of Dr. Watt's Dictionary of Economic Products of India, completed nearly half a century ago, a revised volume in the' line witn the latest informations was long overdue. This most ambitious volume, the 4 Wealth of India', a dictionary of Indian economic products and industrial resources) compiled under the auspices of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,...