Industrial ecology and global change

Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 22
Contributors......Page 24
OVERVIEW......Page 32
1 Six Perspectives from Industrial Ecology......Page 34
PART I VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION......Page 48
2 Introduction......Page 50
3 Industrial Ecology: Definition and Implementation......Page 54
4 Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon......Page 74
5 Changing Perceptions of Vulnerability......Page 99
6 The Human Dimension of Vulnerability......Page 115
7 Global Industrialization: A Developing Country Perspective......Page 137
PART 2 THE GRAND CYCLES: DISRUPTION AND REPAIR......Page 145
8 Introduction......Page 147
9 Human Impacts on the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles......Page 151
10 Charting Development Paths: A Multicountry Comparison of Carbon Dioxide Emissions......Page 187
11 Reducing Urban Sources of Methane: An Experiment in Industrial Ecology......Page 203
12 Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Russia......Page 213
13 Energy Efficiency in China: Past Experience and Future Prospects......Page 223
14 Roles for Biomass Energy in Sustainable Development......Page 229
PART 3 TOXICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 257
15 Introduction......Page 259
16 Soil as a Vulnerable Environmental System......Page 263
17 The Vulnerability of Biotic Diversity......Page 275
18 Global Ecotoxicology: Management and Science......Page 291
19 Industrial Activity and Metal Emissions......Page 307
20 Metals Loading of the Environment: Cadmium in the Rhine Basin......Page 317
21 Emissions and Exposure to Metals: Cadmium and Lead......Page 327
22 Nuclear Power: An Industrial Ecology That Failed?......Page 349
PART 4 INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY IN FIRMS......Page 359
23 Introduction......Page 361
24 Product Life-Cycle Management to Replace Waste Management......Page 365
25 Industrial Ecology in the Manufacturing of Consumer Products......Page 369
26 Design for Environment: A Management Perspective......Page 379
27 Prioritizing Impacts in Industrial Ecology......Page 389
28 Finding and Implementing Projects that Reduce Waste......Page 401
29 Free-Lunch Economics for Industrial Ecologists......Page 413
PART 5 INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY IN POLICY-MAKING......Page 429
30 Introduction......Page 431
31 Policies to Encourage Clean Technology......Page 435
32 Initiatives in Lower Saxony to Link Ecology to Economy......Page 453
33 Military-to-Civilian Conversion and the Environment in Russia......Page 459
34 The Political Economy of Raw Materials Extraction and Trade......Page 467
35 Development, Environment, and Energy Efficiency......Page 481
END PIECE......Page 497
36 The Industrial Ecology Agenda......Page 499
Organizing Committee Members......Page 508
Working Groups......Page 509
Index......Page 511