Table of Contents

Foreword William Moomaw
Preface Robert Socolow
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Overview:
1. Six perspectives from industrial ecology Robert Socolow
Part I. Vulnerability and Adaptation:
2. Introduction R. Socolow, C. Andrews
F. Berkhout and V. Thomas
3. Industrial ecology: definition and implementation Thomas Graedel
4. Industrialization as a historical phenomenon Arnulf Grübler
5. Changing perceptions of vulnerability Robin Cantor and Steve Rayner
6. The human dimension of vulnerability Robert S. Chen
7. Global industrialization: a developing country perspective Saleemul Huq
Part II. The Grand Cycles: Disruption and Repair:
8. Introduction R. Socolow, C. Andrews
F. Berkhout and V. Thomas
9. Human impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles Robert U. Ayres
William H. Schlesinger and Robert H. Socolow
10. Charting development paths: a multicountry comparison of carbon dioxide emissions William Moomaw and Mark Tullis
11. Reducing urban sources of methane: an experiment in industrial ecology Robert Harris
12. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions in Russia Yuri Kononov
13. Energy efficiency in China: past experience and future prospects Jiang Zhenping
14. Roles for biomass energy in sustainable development Robert Williams
Part III. Toxics and The Environment:
15. Introduction R. Socolow, C. Andrews
F. Berkhout and V. Thomas
16. Soil as a vulnerable environmental system Jerald Schnoor and Valerie Thomas
17. The vulnerability of biotic diversity William Schlesinger
18. Global ecotoxicology: management and science Susan Anderson
19. Industrial activity and metals emissions Jerome Nriagu
20. Metals loading of the environment: cadmium in the rhine basin William Stigliani, Peter Jaffé and Stefan Anderberg
21. Emissions and exposure to metals: cadmium and lead Valerie Thomas and Thomas Spiro
22. Nuclear power: an industrial ecology that failed? Frans Berkhout
Part IV. Industrial Ecology In Firms:
23. Introduction R. Socolow, C. Andrews
F. Berkhout and V. Thomas
24. Product life-cycle management to replace waste management Michael Braungart
25. Industrial ecology in the manufacturing of consumer products Wayne France and Valerie Thomas
26. Design for environment: a management perspective Bruce Paton
27. Prioritizing impacts in industrial ecology Thomas Graedel, Inge Horkeby and Victoria Norberg-Bohm
28. Finding and implementing projects that reduce waste Kenneth Nelson
29. Free-lunch economics for industrial ecologists Theodore Panayotou and Clifford Zinnes
Part V. Industrial Ecology In Policy-Making:
30. Introduction R. Socolow, C. Andrews
F. Berkhout and V. Thomas
31. Policies to encourage clean technology Clinton Andrews
32. Initiatives in Lower Saxony to link ecology to economy Monika Griefahn
33. Military-to-civilian conversion and the environment in Russia George Golitsyn
34. The political economy of raw materials extraction and trade Stephen Bunker
35. Development, environment and energy efficiency Ashok Gadgil
End piece:
36. The industrial ecology agenda Clinton Andrews
Frans Berkhout and Valerie Thomas
Organizing committee members
Working groups
Index.

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