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| Preface | |
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| Introducing the Field | |
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| Humanity and Environment | |
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| The Tragedy of the Commons | |
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| The Master Equation | |
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| The Grand Objectives | |
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| Addressing the Challenge | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Industrial Ecology Concept | |
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| From Contemporaneous Thinking to Forward Thinking | |
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| Linking Industrial Activity and Environmental and Social Sciences | |
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| Key Questions of Industrial Ecology | |
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| An Overview | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Technological Change and Evolving Risk | |
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| Historical Patterns in Technological Evolution | |
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| Approaches to Risk | |
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| Risk Assessment | |
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| Risk Communication | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Physical, Biological, and Societal Framework | |
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| The Relevance of Biological Ecology to Technology | |
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| Considering the Analogy | |
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| Biological and Industrial Organisms | |
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| Food Chains: Networks of Nutrient and Energy Transfer | |
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| Population Ecology | |
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| Classification of Specific Linkages | |
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| The Utility of the Ecological Approach | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Status of Resources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Depletion Times and Underabundant Resources | |
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| Hitchhiker Resources | |
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| Energy Resources | |
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| Energetically Limited Mineral Resources | |
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| Geographically Influenced Resource Availability | |
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| Environmentally Limited Resources | |
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| Cumulative Supply Curves | |
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| Water Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Society and Culture | |
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| Society, Culture, and Industrial Ecology | |
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| Cultural Constructs and Temporal Scales | |
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| The Private Firm in a Social Context | |
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| Environmentalism, Technology, and Society | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Governments, Laws, and Economics | |
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| National Governmental Structures and Actions | |
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| International Governance Considerations | |
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| Industrial Ecology and the Legal System | |
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| Economics and Industrial Ecology | |
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| Finance, Capital, and Investment | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Design for Environment | |
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| Industrial Product Design and Development | |
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| The Product Design Challenge | |
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| Conceptual Tools for Product Designers | |
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| Design for X | |
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| Product Design Teams | |
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| The Product Realization Process | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Industrial Process Design and Operation | |
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| The Process Design Challenge | |
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| Pollution Prevention | |
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| The Challenge of Water Availability | |
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| The Process Life Cycle | |
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| The Approach to Process Analysis | |
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| Guidelines for Process Design and Operation | |
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| Implications for Corporations | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Choosing Materials | |
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| Materials Selection Considerations | |
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| Materials and Environmental Hazards | |
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| Materials Sources and Principal Uses | |
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| Materials Substitution | |
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| Multiparameter Materials Selection | |
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| Dematerialization | |
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| Material Selection Guidelines | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Designing for Energy Efficiency | |
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| Energy and Industry | |
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| Primary Processing Industries | |
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| Intermediate Processing Industries | |
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| Analyzing Energy Use | |
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| General Approaches to Minimizing Energy Use | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Product Delivery | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General Packaging Considerations | |
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| Solid Residue Considerations | |
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| Liquid and Gaseous Emission Considerations | |
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| Transportation and Installation | |
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| Discussion and Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Environmental Interactions During Product Use | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Solid Residue Generation During Product Use | |
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| Liquid Residue Generation During Product Use | |
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| Gaseous Residue Generation During Product Use | |
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| Energy Consumption During Product Use | |
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| Intentionally Dissipative Products | |
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| Unintentionally Dissipative Products | |
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| Design for Maintainability | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Design for End of Life | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General End-of-Life Considerations | |
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| Remanufacturing | |
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| Recycling | |
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| Fastening Parts Together | |
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| Planning for Recyclability | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| An Introduction to Life-Cycle Assessment | |
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| The Life Cycle of Industrial Products | |
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| The LCA Framework | |
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| Goal Setting and Scope Determination | |
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| Defining Boundaries | |
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| Approaches to Data Acquisition | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The LCA Impact and Interpretation Stages | |
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| LCA Impact Analysis | |
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| Industrial Prioritization: The IVL/Volvo EPS System | |
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| Interpretation Analysis | |
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| Prioritization Diagrams | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Streamlining the LCA Process | |
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| The Assessment Continuum | |
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| Preserving Perspective | |
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| The SLCA Matrix | |
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| Target Plots | |
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| Assessing Generic Automobiles of Yesterday and Today | |
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| SLCA Assets and Liabilities | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Using the Corporate Industrial Ecology Toolbox | |
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| Stages and Scales in Industrial Environmental Management | |
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| The First Stage: Regulatory Compliance | |
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| The Second Stage: Pollution Prevention | |
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| The Third Stage: Design for Environment | |
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| Environmental Opportunities at the PRP Gates | |
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| The Industrial Ecology Mechanic and the Toolbox | |
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| Industrial Ecology Tools for the Service Sector | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Corporate Industrial Ecology | |
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| Managing Industrial Ecology in the Corporation | |
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| Overview | |
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| Environment as Strategic for the Firm | |
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| Implementing Industrial Ecology in the Corporation | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Indicators and Metrics | |
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| The Importance of Indicators and Metrics | |
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| Metric Systems Development | |
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| Industry-Level Metrics | |
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| Metrics Displays and Metrics Aggregation | |
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| Hierarchical Metrics Systems | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Services Technology and Environment | |
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| Defining Services | |
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| The Environmental Dimensions of Services | |
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| The Industrial Ecology of Service Firms | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Systems-Level Industrial Ecology | |
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| Industrial Ecosystems | |
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| The Ecosystems Concept | |
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| Industrial Symbiosis | |
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| Designing and Developing Symbiotic Industrial Ecosystems | |
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| Resource Flow in Industrial Ecosystems | |
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| Pattern and Scale in Industrial Ecosystems | |
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| The Utility of Mixed Ecological Approaches | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Metabolic and Resource Analyses | |
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| Budgets and Cycles | |
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| Metabolic Analyses in Industrial Ecology | |
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| Resource Analyses in Industrial Ecology | |
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| The Balance Between Natural and Anthropogenic Mobilization of Resources | |
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| The Utility of Metabolic and Resource Analyses | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Systems Analysis, Models, and Scenario Development | |
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| Thinking at the Systems Level | |
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| Models of Technological Systems | |
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| Describing Possible Futures | |
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| Developing a Predictive Industrial Ecology | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Earth Systems Engineering and Management | |
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| Introducing the Concept | |
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| Examples of ESEM, Implemented and Proposed | |
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| The Principles of ESEM | |
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| Facing the ESEM Question | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Future of Industrial Ecology | |
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| Industrial Ecology in the Midst of Change | |
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| The Industrial Ecology Hardware Store | |
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| Industrial Ecology as an Evolving Science | |
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| An Industrial Ecology Research Roadmap | |
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| Redefining the Challenge | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Electronic Solder Alternatives: A Detailed Case Study | |
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| Units of Measurement in Industrial Ecology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |