There is an emerging trend in evaluating industrial activities using principles of industrial ecology because of the emphasis on sustainability initiatives by major process industries. Attention has also been targeted at developing planned industrial ecosystems (IEs) across the globe. We point out the current state-of-the art in this exciting discipline and subsequently identify the challenges ...

New waste management legislation provides a driver for materials recovery, industrial ecology, and remanufacturing practices throughout the global electronics industry. Paradoxically, the resulting regulations are incongruent and unsustainable because the targeted practitioners can neither legally re-use the resultant reclaimed materials nor legally store or dispose of the ensuing wastes.

The presentation gives an overview of present major changes in the environmental strategies and external premises for industrial environmental performance. Such changes are discussed in the lights of increasing waste and resource problems, the shift from environmental control to avoidance technologies, long-term perspectives and systems thinking, and the understanding of fundamental thermodynam...

The measurement and reporting of environmental performance of business companies have been the subject of intense research efforts during the last few years. What appears from a survey of current literature is an obvious lack of standardisation of methods and procedures. Starting from the basic concepts and requirements of environmental performance measurement, we investigate how these can be p...

Ecological modernization provides a theoretical framework for situating the emergence of new technologyintensive modes of environmental reform such as industrial ecology, environmentally conscious manufacturing, and ecological design. These forms of professional engineering practice all seek to exploit opportunities for aggressive innovation to achieve rigorous improvements in the environmental...

The thesis provides a presentation of the two conceptual models of industrial system material and energy flows in terms of sustainability; the dominant and the unsustainable throughput flow model and the potential future sustainable roundput model. These two material and energy flow concepts serve to illustrate the main research agenda of the emerging research and practical field of industrial ...

Industrial ecology has mainly been concerned with improving the efficiency of production systems. But addressing consumption is also vital in reducing the impact of society on its environment. The concept of sustainable consumption is a response to this. But the debates about sustainable consumption can only really be understood in the context of much wider and deeper debates about consumption ...

Phase I of the Gulf Coast By-Product Synergy (BPS) project, sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and the U.S. Department of Energy and facilitated by the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development, is now complete. The concept behind ByProduct Synergy is also referred to as Industrial Ecosystem, Industrial Symbiosis, or “Industrial Ecology” (IE) system. The philosophy of the IE ap...

Designing an ecologically responsible EcoCity of 550,000 people begins by confining it to 8500 ha, which spares surrounding land for farming and for Nature. Because an American diet requires 126,000 ha and even a survival diet needs more cropland than can be found inside its boundaries, EcoCity will cast shadows of farming outside its limits. EcoCitizens will cast wider shadows if farmers grow ...

© 2015 by Yale University. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Velenturf, A. P.M. and Jensen, P. D. (2016), Promoting Industrial Symbiosis: Using the Concept of Proximity to Explore Social Network Development. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20: 700–709. doi:10.1111/jiec.12315, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12315. This article may ...