Industrial Ecology and Sustainability

Technology today is undergoing a rapid, unprecedented, and accelerating period of transformation. The implications of climate change, underpinned by geopolitics, for scientists and engineers are profound, as they and their societies attempt to harness these new technologies to address critical global environmental challenges, often without a full understanding of the long-term consequences. This textbook is designed to fill the gaps at a time of rapid changes in technology and the global environmental to develop sustainability situations.

Written by world-renowned experts, this book comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics in sustainability science industrial ecology, economic geology, environmental change, recycling and reuse, and sustainability and brings readers up to date on the state-of-the-art. A feature of the book is the inclusion of worked examples in the text. Industrial ecology utilizes life cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA), matrix analytics, in-use stock derivation, and other mathematical and analytic tools; appropriate chapters include worked examples to illustrate their use, to develop reader-familiarity with the tools.

Contents:

• Setting the Stage:

  • Humanity, Technology, and Sustainability
  • The Linked Systems of Human Society and Industrial Ecology
  • Carrying Capacity and Grand Challenges
  • Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering Concepts
  • Organisms Biological and Industrial
  • Ecosystems Biological and Industrial

• The Methodology of Industrial Ecology:

  • Providing Services to Society: In-Use Stocks
  • Material Flow Analysis
  • Material Recycling and Reuse
  • Environmentally-Extended InputOutput Analysis
  • Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment
  • Life Cycle Assessment in Practice
  • Economics Tools: Techno-Economic Analysis, Life Cycle Costing, and Valuation
  • Network Analysis
  • Data Science in Industrial Ecology

• The Resources of Modern Technology:

  • The Material Resources of Modern Technology
  • The Industrial Ecology of Metals
  • The Industrial Ecology of Plastics
  • Industrial Ecology and Food
  • The Industrial Ecology of Biomass Materials
  • The Industrial Ecology of Construction Minerals
  • Industrial Ecology and Energy
  • Material Criticality

• Industrial Ecology in Industry:

  • Sustainable Design Frameworks: Design for Environment, Cradle-to-Cradle, and the Principles of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
  • Remanufacturing
  • Corporate Sustainability

• Industrial Ecology of Socio-Technical Systems:

  • Telecoupling in Industrial Ecology
  • Islands: Geographically-Constrained Systems
  • Holarchic Industrial Ecology
  • Industrial Symbiosis
  • Industrial Ecology and Healthcare
  • Infrastructure
  • Urban Industrial Ecology

• Prospective and Systemic Industrial Ecology:

  • Scenarios in Industrial Ecology
  • Industrial Ecology and the Social Sciences
  • The Status of Resource Supply and Demand
  • The Circular Economy

• Looking to the Future:

  • Sustainability

Readership: Graduate students in industrial ecology, industrial engineering; civil engineering and materials science, and advanced undergraduate students in environmental studies, sustainable development, and similar fields.
Key Features:

• To date, there is no foundational textbook available to provid

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