Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Volume I and II

INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY 509

Towards Sustainability

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Regulatory como

Pollution prevention

Design for environment

Green accounting

Industrial symbiosis

Product life cycle

industrial sector initiatives

Models and scenarios

Budgets & cycles

industrial metabolism

Dematerialization

Decarbonization

Earth systems engineering

Towards Sustainability

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Applied Industrial Ecology

Experimental Industrial Ecology

Theoretical Industrial Ecology

Further development of DTE and manufacturing for environment

Relation between industrial ecology and land use

Policy incentives of industrial ecology

Promotion of industrial ecology in developing countries

Budgets for the materials of technology

Design and development of eco-industrial parks

Industrial food webs

Metabolism of cities

Theory of industrial ecosystem

Multiscale energy budget for technology

Model of interaction between human and natural systems

Theory of quantitative sustainability

Green chemistry

FIGURE 5 A graphical framework of industrial ecology. (a) The spacetime of industrial-ecology tools and

methods; (b) An industrial-ecology roadmap.

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