Linking Industry And Ecology

Author : Ray Côté,James Tansey,Ann Dale
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780774832687

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Linking Industry and Ecology by Ray Côté,James Tansey,Ann Dale Pdf

It might, at first glance, seem to many that industry and ecology make strange bedfellows. For proponents of sustainable development, however, such a union is crucial. How else are we to make the industries that are so central to modern societies consistent with our visions of a sustainable future? Linking Industry and Ecology explores the origins, promise, and relevance of the emerging field of industrial ecology. It situates industrial ecology within the broader range of environmental management strategies and concepts, from the practices of pollution prevention through life cycle management, to the more fundamental shift toward dematerialization and ecological design. The book makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy. The contributors to this volume draw on their experience in a variety of disciplines to chart a clear path for industrial ecology. Their work not only affirms what has been learned to date in this nascent field but also provides new insight for a discourse traditionally dominated by natural scientists and engineers, by demonstrating that technologies are socially and politically embedded.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Policy Division
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309055789

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Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Policy Division Pdf

Where should the United States focus its long-term efforts to improve the nation's environment? What are the nation's most important environmental issues? What role should science and technology play in addressing these issues? Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals provides the current thinking and answers to these questions. Based on input from a range of experts and interested individuals, including representatives of industry, government, academia, environmental organizations, and Native American communities, this book urges policymakers to: Use social science and risk assessment to guide decision-making. Monitor environmental changes in a more thorough, consistent, and coordinated manner. Reduce the adverse impact of chemicals on the environment. Move away from the use of fossil fuels. Adopt an environmental approach to engineering that reduces the use of natural resources. Substantially increase our understanding of the relationship between population and consumption. This book will be of special interest to policymakers in government and industry; environmental scientists, engineers, and advocates; and faculty, students, and researchers.

Author : Policy Division,Policy and Global Affairs,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309520874

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Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals by Policy Division,Policy and Global Affairs,National Research Council Pdf

Where should the United States focus its long-term efforts to improve the nation's environment? What are the nation's most important environmental issues? What role should science and technology play in addressing these issues? Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals provides the current thinking and answers to these questions. Based on input from a range of experts and interested individuals, including representatives of industry, government, academia, environmental organizations, and Native American communities, this book urges policymakers to Use social science and risk assessment to guide decisionmaking. Monitor environmental changes in a more thorough, consistent, and coordinated manner. Reduce the adverse impact of chemicals on the environment. Move away from the use of fossil fuels. Adopt an environmental approach to engineering that reduces the use of natural resources. Substantially increase our understanding of the relationship between population and consumption. This book will be of special interest to policymakers in government and industry; environmental scientists, engineers, and advocates; and faculty, students, and researchers.

Author : Carl Folke,Tomas Kåberger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401764063

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Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group by Carl Folke,Tomas Kåberger Pdf

Author : Strange Tracey,Bayley Anne
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264055742

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OECD Insights Sustainable Development Linking Economy, Society, Environment by Strange Tracey,Bayley Anne Pdf

A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.

Author : Carl Folke,Tomas Kåberger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792312277

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Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group by Carl Folke,Tomas Kåberger Pdf

Author : S.T.A. Pickett,M.L. Cadenasso,Brian McGrath
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400753419

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Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design by S.T.A. Pickett,M.L. Cadenasso,Brian McGrath Pdf

The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority. The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.

Author : Nicolas Buclet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786305466

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Territorial Ecology and Socio-ecological Transition by Nicolas Buclet Pdf

In the same realm as social ecology, industrial ecology and the circular economy, a new interdisciplinary field is growing: territorial ecology. Based on the analysis of the metabolism of human societies at a local level, it helps us diagnose a socioecosystem. This diagnostic is not only based on what is circulating, but also on how it is organized and why. Who is at the origin of a flow? What are their motivations? Who has the power to make decisions about it? This methodology, taking into account both the material description of human societies and the analysis of decisionmaking processes, might also be relevant for territorial diagnostics. It leads us to a systemic view of the consequences of individual and collective actions on the sustainability of local socio ecosystems. Socio-ecological transition implies a substantial evolution of human societies. Innovation, be it technological, organizational or social, is intrinsically involved in this evolution. However, if transition calls for disruptive rather than incremental innovations, we must also assess these innovations with a systemic view of their consequences.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309262309

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Sustainability for the Nation by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government Pdf

A "sustainable society," according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social system of support." As the government sector works hard to ensure sufficient fresh water, food, energy, housing, health, and education for the nation without limiting resources for the future generations, it's clear that there is no sufficient organization to deal with sustainability issues. Each federal agency appears to have a single mandate or a single area of expertise making it difficult to tackle issues such as managing the ecosystem. Key resource domains, which include water, land, energy, and nonrenewable resources, for example, are nearly-completely connected yet different agencies exist to address only one aspect of these domains. The legendary ecologist John Muir wrote in 1911 that "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." Thus, in order for the nation to be successful in sustaining its resources, "linkages" will need to be built among federal, state, and local governments; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); and the private sector. The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by several federal agencies, foundations, and the private sector to provide guidance to the federal government on issues related to sustainability linkages. The NRC assigned the task to as committee with a wide range of expertise in government, academia, and business. The committee held public fact-finding meetings to hear from agencies and stakeholder groups; examined sustainability management examples; conducted extensive literature reviews; and more to address the issue. Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connection and Governance Linkages is the committee's report on the issue. The report includes insight into high-priority areas for governance linkages, the challenges of managing connected systems, impediments to successful government linkages, and more. The report also features examples of government linkages which include Adaptive Management on the Platte River, Philadelphia's Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Managing Land Use in the Mojave.

Author : Robert U. Ayres,Leslie Ayres
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1843765470

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A Handbook of Industrial Ecology by Robert U. Ayres,Leslie Ayres Pdf

'The editors of this handbook have brought together 58 of the world's greatest environmental systems experts. These professionals have, in 46 specific topic headings, divided into six major sections, provided very insightful information and guidance as to what industrial ecology entails, how it can be implemented, and its benefits . . . a very valuable tool . . . This book provides essential information to mid- and top-level management that can enable industry to make more prudent business decisions regarding the manufacturing of its products.' - Robert John Klancko, Environmental Practice Industrial ecology is coming of age and this superb book brings together leading scholars to present a state-of-the-art overviews of the subject.

Author : Braden R. Allenby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015045687475

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Industrial Ecology by Braden R. Allenby Pdf

For courses in engineering, environmental science, and economics. This unique and important book takes a multidisciplinary approach to an integrated discussion of the issues related to industrial ecology and sustainable development.

Author : Chris Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134216055

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Environmental Management for Sustainable Development by Chris Barrow Pdf

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development. This comprehensively updated second edition explores the nature and role of environmental management, covering key principles, practices, tools, strategies and policies, offers a thorough yet understandable introduction, and points to further in-depth coverage. Among the key themes covered are: sustainable development proactive approaches the precautionary principle the ‘polluter pays’ principle the need for humans to be less vulnerable and more adaptable. Reflecting the expansion and evolution of the field, this revised edition focuses strongly on sustainable development. There has been extensive restructuring to ensure the book is accessible to those unfamiliar with environmental management and it now includes greater coverage of topics including key resources under stress, environmental management tools, climate change and urban environmental management. With rapid expansion and development of the subject it is easy for those embarking on a course of study to become disorientated, but with its well-structured coverage, effective illustrations, and foundation for further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all.

Author : Bruce Morgan Campbell,Jeffrey Sayer
Publisher : CABI
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781845933418

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Integrated Natural Resource Management by Bruce Morgan Campbell,Jeffrey Sayer Pdf

This book, which contains 15 separately authored chapters, discusses both the principles and applications of an integrated approach to natural resource management. Such an approach must embrace the complexity of systems and redirect research towards the greater inclusion of issues such as participatory approaches, multi-scale analysis and an array of tools for system analysis, information management and impact assessment. Case studies, particularly from developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are included. This book is of interest to a wide range of readers in many disciplines, including forestry, soil and management sciences, agriculture, and development studies.

Author : Eike W. Schamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351153904

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Linking Industries Across the World by Eike W. Schamp Pdf

Originally published in 2005. This book examines how regional industries use different networks on various geographical scales in order to withstand increasing competition in a globalising world. It argues that new forms of global governance of networked industries are emerging, in particular in those areas that have only recently been incorporated into the global economy such as Eastern Europe, Asia and Southern Africa. The book addresses a number of issues, including the different forms of institutional arrangements that contribute to the formation of heterogeneous global industrial networks. It also raises the issue of national institutions that still matter in network formation. The focus of the book is on how to improve regional and sectoral competitiveness in a global context and it suggests this is best achieved by a close analysis of global linkages, an evolutionary perspective on processes taking place, and a more differentiated view on globalisation.

Author : Sukhbir Sandhu,Stephen McKenzie,Howard Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401790086

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Linking Local and Global Sustainability by Sukhbir Sandhu,Stephen McKenzie,Howard Harris Pdf

The book takes a holistic approach to sustainability. Acknowledging the Brundtland definition, that sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the book is specifically concerned with the ethics of contemporary social and environmental sustainability activity and thinking. It is concerned with the role of institutions–both local and global in achieving sustainability initiatives. All twelve chapters extend sustainability–conceptually, empirically and theoretically, and in doing so provide insights into linking local and global sustainability. The book refocuses sustainability as a series of interwoven and dynamic relationships, backed by just ethical decision-making, which begin locally, and reach out to impact the global level.