Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication on 17 March 2003 of:
PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
Edited by
Dominique Bourg, University of Troyes, France
and Suren Erkman, Institute for the Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST), Switzerland
with a Foreword by Jacques Chirac, President of France
March 2003 | 384pp | 234 x 156mm | Hardback
ISBN 1 874719 46 2 | £40.00 US$75.00
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BUSINESS-AS-USUAL in terms of industrial and technological development - even if based on a growing fear of pollution and shortages of natural resources - will never deliver sustainable development. However, the growing interest in recent years in the new science of industrial ecology (IE), and the idea that industrial systems should mimic the quasi-cyclical functions of natural ecosystems in an 'industrial food chain', holds promise in addressing not only short-term environmental problems but also the long-term holistic evolution of industrial systems.
This possibility requires a number of key conditions to be met, not least the restructuring of our manufacturing and consumer society to reduce the effects of material and energy flows at the very point in history when globalisation is rapidly increasing them. This book sets out to address the theoretical considerations that should be made implicit in future research as well as practical implementation options for industry. The systematic recovery of industrial wastes, the minimisation of losses caused by dispersion, the dematerialisation of the economy, the requirement to decrease our reliance on fuels derived from hydrocarbons and the need for management systems that help foster inter-industry collaboration and networks are among the topics covered.
The book is split into four sections. First, the various definitions of IE are outlined. Here, important distinctions are made between industrial metabolism and IE. Second, a number of different industrial sectors, including glass, petroleum and electric power, are assessed with regard to the operationalisation of industrial ecology. Eco-industrial parks and networks are also analysed. Third, the options for overcoming obstacles that stand in the way of the closing of cycles such as the separation and screening of materials are considered and, finally, a number of implications for the future are assessed. The contributions to 'Perspectives on Industrial Ecology' come from the leading thinkers working in this field at the crossroads between a number of different disciplines: engineering, ecology, bio-economics, geography, the social sciences and law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
President Jacques Chirac
Introduction
Dominique Bourg, Troyes University of Technology, France
Part 1: Concepts and ideas
1. Industrial ecology and material flow analysis: basic concepts, policy relevance and some case studies
Stefan Bringezu, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
2. On the history of industrial metabolism
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
3. Technology, global change and industrial ecology
Arnulf Gruebler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
4. Industrial ecology: philosophical and political meanings
Dominique Bourg, Troyes University of Technology, France
Part 2: Ideas in action
5. Industrial ecology and services to enterprises: cell metabolism versus industrial metabolism
Anne Bablon, CReeD, France
6. Physicochemical characterisation and recycling of industrial residues
Maurice Morency, University of Quebec at Montreal and Environmental Research Centre UQAM/Sorel-Tracy, Canada; Denise Fontaine and Guoji Shan, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
7. The ecodesign process
Thierry Kazazian, O2 France
8. Eco-industrial sites and networks
Jean-Francois Valles, Oree Association, France
9. Metropolitan industrial ecosystem development
Judy Kincaid, Triangle J Council of Governments, USA
10. Towards a methodology for assessing effectiveness of recovery systems: a process system approach
Kjetil Roine and Helge Brattebo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Industrial Ecology Programme
11. Recycling of zinc-containing secondary products from the galvanising and steel industries: a new case of applied industrial ecology
Jean-Paul Wiaux, Titalyse SA, Switzerland
12. The chemical industry from an industrial ecology perspective
Colin G. Francis, Institute for the Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST), Switzerland
13. Industrial ecology in motion: enterprise integration
Raymond Nyer, IBM Europe-Middle East-Africa, France; Diana Bendz, IBM Corporation, USA
14. Electric power consumption and sustainable consumption
Paul Baudry and Arnaud Ansart, Electricite de France
15. Industrial ecology and metallurgy
Rolf Marstrander, Hydro Aluminium Metal Products, Norway
16. Industrial ecology and the oil industry
Bernard Tramier, Elf Aquitaine, France
17. Industrial ecology and the glass industry
Guy Tackels, Saint-Gobain Conceptions Verrieres, France
18. Applied industrial ecology and technology transposition: steelmaking slag and dust co-products, and secondary slag metallurgy
Claude N. Gentaz, TRANSTEC, Switzerland
Part 3: Future challenges
19. The future of the industrial system
Indur M. Goklany, US Department of the Interior
20. Obstacles and opportunities for a 'green' industrial policy
Jan Nill and Ulrich Petschow, Institute for Ecological Economic Research (IOeW), Germany
21. A systems option for sustainable techno-metabolism: an ecological assessment of Japan's industrial technology system
Chihiro Watanabe and Bing Zhu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
22. The functional society: the service economy
Walter R. Stahel, The Product-Life Institute, Switzerland
23. Urban transportation and industrial ecology
Thomas E. Graedel and Michael Jensen, Yale University, USA
24. The adoption of cleaner production technology and the emergence of industrial ecology activity: consequences for employment
Laurent Grimal, Laboratoire Intelligence des Organisations, Universite de Haute Alsace, France
25. The relevance of industrial ecology in developing countries
Ramesh Ramaswamy, Independent Consultant and Associate, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST), Switzerland
26. The impact of industrial ecology on university curricula
Helge Brattebo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
27. From ecology of natural systems to industrial ecology: the need for an extension of the scope of ecology
Gilles Billen, UMR Sisyphe; Centre National de Recherche; Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
28. Perspectives on industrial ecology
Suren Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST), Switzerland
Bibliography
List of abbreviations
Author biographies
Index
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