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For upper level courses in Industrial Ecology.

This text addresses the increasing need for knowledge about the interactions between industry and environment with the ultimate goal of sustainability. With in-depth analysis of past, present, and future issues in industrial ecology, this book seeks to meet the needs of the product-design engineers who hold much of the future of industry-environment interactions in their hands, as well as the emerging discipline of “sustainability scientists”.

• NEW - Discussion of environmental impact of common industrial approaches—With special emphasis given to the long-term effects.

  • Introduces students to the central topic of system-level approaches.

• NEW - Divided into five sections
  • —Introducing the Field, The Physical, Biological, and Societal Framework, Environmentally-
  • Responsible Design, Corporate Industrial Ecology, and Systems-Level Industrial Ecology.

  • Breaks the text down into manageable parts.

• NEW - Philosophically and practically balanced treatment.

  • Provides students with relevant and sophisticated material, up-to-date with issues in the field.

• NEW - Cutting-edge topics—Including the relevance of biological ecology, indicators and metrics, the service sector, industrial symbiosis, systems analysis, and scenario development.

  • Addresses the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the field.

• Discussion of environmental impact of common industrial approaches—With special emphasis given to the long-term effects.

  • Introduces students to the central topic of system-level approaches.

• Divided into five sections
  • —Introducing the Field, The Physical, Biological, and Societal Framework, Environmentally-
  • Responsible Design, Corporate Industrial Ecology, and Systems-Level Industrial Ecology.

  • Breaks the text down into manageable parts.

• Philosophically and practically balanced treatment.

  • Provides students with relevant and sophisticated material, up-to-date with issues in the field.

• Cutting-edge topics—Including the relevance of biological ecology, indicators and metrics, the service sector, industrial symbiosis, systems analysis, and scenario development.

  • Addresses the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the field.

 1. Humanity and Environment.


 2. The Industrial Ecology Concept.


 3. Technological Change and Evolving Risk.


 4. The Relevance of Biological Ecology to Technology.


 5. The Status of Resources.


 6. Society and Culture.


 7. Governments, Laws, and Economics.


 8. Industrial Product Design and Development.


 9. Industrial Process Design and Operation.


10. Choosing Materials.


11. Designing for Energy Efficiency.


12. Product Delivery.


13. Environmental Interactions During Product Use.


14. Design For End of Life.


15. An Introduction to Life-Cycle Assessment.


16. The LCA Impact and Interpretation Stages.


17. Streamlining the LCA Process.


18. Using the Corporate Industrial Ecology Toolbox.


19. Managing Industrial Ecology in the Corporation.


20. Indicators and Metrics.


21. Services, Technology, and Environment.


22. Industrial Ecosystems.


23. Metabolic and Resource Analysis.


24. Systems Analysis, Models, and Scenario Development.


25. Earth Systems Engineering and Management.


26. The Future of Industrial Ecology.


Appendix A: Electronic Solder Alternatives: A Detailed Case Study.


Appendix B: Units of Measurement in Industrial Ecology.


Glossary.


Index.

Industrial Ecology [CORE TEXTS] (Industrial Engineering)
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To a significant degree, the first edition of this book defined the new field of industrial ecology, the restructuring of technological activity to incorporate environmental concerns. Important topics from that book are updated here, among them

• life-cycle assessment
• product design for the environment
• the incorporation of environmental considerations into product development
• integrating industrial ecology into corporations
• budgets and cycles

In addition, the new edition includes entire chapters on topics that are becoming or have become newly important to the field:

• the biological model applied to industrial systems
• the status of resources
• the transition from products to services
• systems analysis
• Earth systems engineering and management

While still serving as a practical guide to product designers and corporate managers, the new edition also provides guidance for the broader task of mapping a societal evolution to a more sustainable world, thus justifying industrial ecology's label as "the science and technology of sustainability."

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