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Industrial Ecology (Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems) (Paperback)

by Thomas E. Graedel (Author), Braden R. Allenby (Author)
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  • Paperback: 363 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (5 Dec 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0130467138
  • ISBN-13: 978-0130467133
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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For upper level courses in Industrial Ecology.

This text addresses the increasing need for knowledge about the interactions between industry and environment with the ultimate goal of sustainability. With in-depth analysis of past, present, and future issues in industrial ecology, this book seeks to meet the needs of the product-design engineers who hold much of the future of industry-environment interactions in their hands, as well as the emerging discipline of “sustainability scientists”.



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To a significant degree, the first edition of this book defined the new field of industrial ecology, the restructuring of technological activity to incorporate environmental concerns. Important topics from that book are updated here, among them

  • life-cycle assessment
  • product design for the environment
  • the incorporation of environmental considerations into product development
  • integrating industrial ecology into corporations
  • budgets and cycles

In addition, the new edition includes entire chapters on topics that are becoming or have become newly important to the field:

  • the biological model applied to industrial systems
  • the status of resources
  • the transition from products to services
  • systems analysis
  • Earth systems engineering and management

While still serving as a practical guide to product designers and corporate managers, the new edition also provides guidance for the broader task of mapping a societal evolution to a more sustainable world, thus justifying industrial ecology's label as "the science and technology of sustainability."

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4.0 out of 5 stars A very good attempt at explaining a complex problem!, 22 May 2002
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A very useful and thought provoking book. This is a must for anyone thinking about, working in, and teaching waste and resource management. Industrial Ecology (IE) is a concept that looks to the recycling of substances through the ecosystem as a model for the structuring of manufacturing and waste minimisation problems. The section on Life Cycle Analysis will be of use to a growing number of people concerned with new EU legislation. The structure of the book, and development of problem solving strategies is logical and easy to follow. The maths used in book is easily understandable, although requires careful thinking about in places. The exercises are useful for this, however less knowledgable readers would appreciate an answers section at the back. The Appendices are packed with useful data, both for the exercises and developing your own problems. It has prompted me to start to use the concepts and theories in my own classes.
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