Linking industry and ecology : a question of design
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Linking industry and ecology : a question of design
(Sustainability and the environment)
UBC Press, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The contributors to this volume draw on their experience in a varietyof disciplines to explore the origins, promise, and relevance ofthe emerging field of industrial ecology. They situate industrialecology within the broader range of environmental management strategiesand concepts, from the practices of pollution prevention through lifecycle management, to the more fundamental shift towarddematerialization and ecological design. Their work not only affirmswhat has been learned to date in this nascent field but also providesnew insight by demonstrating that technologies are socially andpolitically embedded. This book makes a compelling argument for theneed to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitiveindustrial policy.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1 Linking Industry and Ecology in Canada: A Question of Design /Ann Dale
Part 2: Design and Ecology
2 Industrial Ecology as Ecological Design: Opportunities forRe(dis)covery / Nina-Marie Lister
3 Redesign as Deep Industrial Ecology: Lessons from EcologicalAgriculture and Social Ecology / Stuart B. Hill
4 Industry in the City: From Industrial Ghettos to Eco-Parks /Jill Grant
5 Reworking Canadian Landscape and Urban Form through ResponsiveUrban Design: Healthy Housing and Other Lessons / Nik Luka
Part 3: Industrial Ecology and Environmental and BusinessManagement
6 Cleaner Production and Eco-Efficiency: Charting a Course forSustainability / Nonita T. Yap
7 From Clusters and Networks to Islands of Sustainability /Raymond P. Cote and Heinz Peter Wallner
8 From Advanced Eco-Efficiency to Systemic Sustainability: WhatLeading Companies Are Doing and What Assistance and Pressure They Needfrom Governments and Other Players / Robert B. Gibson and Steven W.Peck
9 Mining, Minerals, and Sustainability / R. AnthonyHodge
10 Between Beckett's Trousers and Ecotopia: The Future ofIndustrial Ecology / James Tansey
Part 4: Learning from Experience
11 Applied Industrial Ecology: Blue Box Recycling Lessons Learnedand Implications for Canada's Greenhouse Gas Strategy / R.A.Flemington
12 Clustering for Sustainability: The Alberta Experience /Sumita Fons and Rebekah Young
13 From Waste Management to Industrial Ecology / JonahSpiegelman
Part 5: Conclusions
14 Opportunity or Illusion: The Vexed Promise of Industrial Ecology/ John Robinson and Asoka Mendis
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