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Industrial ecology: concepts and approaches.

Author(s) -

Lynn W. Jelinski,

T. E. Graedel,

R.A. Laudise,

David W. McCall,

Chetan K. Patel

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.89.3.793

Subject(s) - industrial ecology , ecology , salient , product (mathematics) , systems ecology , component (thermodynamics) , applied ecology , sustainability , engineering , computer science , biology , mathematics , plant ecology , physics , geometry , artificial intelligence , thermodynamics

Industrial ecology is a new approach to the industrial design of products and processes and the implementation of sustainable manufacturing strategies. It is a concept in which an industrial system is viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems but in concert with them. Industrial ecology seeks to optimize the total materials cycle from virgin material to finished material, to component, to product, to waste product, and to ultimate disposal. To better characterize the topic, the National Academy of Sciences convened a colloquium from which were derived a number of salient contributions. This paper sets the stage for the contributions that follow and discusses how each fits into the framework of industrial ecology.

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