Industrial Metabolism:• Restructuring for Sustainable Development •
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Industrial Metabolism:Table of contents (390 p.)
Edited by Robert U. Ayres and Udo E. Simonis
ŠThe United Nations University, 1994
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is industrial metabolism?
The materials cycle
Measures of industrial metabolism
Policy implications of the industrial metabolism perspective
References
2. Ecosystem and the biosphere: Metaphors for human-induced material flows
Introduction
The ecosystem analogue
The environmental spheres analogue: Atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere
Summary and conclusions
References
Introduction
Identifying indicators of environmentally relevant structural change
Structural change as environmental relief
Environmentally relevant structural change: Empirical analysis
Typology of environmentally relevant structural change
Specific conclusions
General conclusions
4. Industrial restructuring in developing countries: The case of India
Industrial metabolism and sustainable development
Industry and sustainable development
Resource utilization
Energy efficiency: An overview
Energy use in Indian industry: A case-study
Conclusions
References
Introduction
Technical progress and reductionism
The mechanical paradigm
The evolution of ecological structure
Discussion
Introduction
The use of chromium and lead in Sweden
Calculation of emissions
The development of emissions over time
The emerging immission landscape
Conclusions
References
7. Industrial metabolism at the regional level: The Rhine Basin
Introduction
Geographic features of the Rhine basin
Methodology
The example of cadmium
Conclusions
References
8. Industrial metabolism at the regional and local level: A case-study on a Swiss region
Introduction
Sulphur emissions
Nitrogen oxides emissions
Conclusion
References
11. Consumptive uses and losses of toxic heavy metals in the United States, 1880-1980
Introduction
Production-related heavy metal emissions
Emissions coefficients for production
Consumption-related heavy metal emissions
Emissions coefficient for consumption
Historical usage patterns
Conclusions
References
Appendix
Part
3: Further implications
Introduction
Precaution and "industrial metabolism"
Precaution: A case-study
History of the precaution principle
The precaution principle in international agreements
Precaution on the European stage
Precaution as a science-politics game
Precaution on the global stage
References
13. Transfer of clean(er) technologies to developing countries
Introduction
Sustainable development
Environmentally sound technology, clean(er) technology
Industrial metabolism
Knowledge and technology transfer
Endogenous capacity
Crucial elements of endogenous capacity-building
International cooperation for clean(er) technologies
Conclusions
Two case-studies
References
Bibliography
Introduction
Distinguishing between "harmful" and "harmless" characteristics of socio-economic metabolism with its natural environment
Outline of an information system for the metabolism of the socio-economic system with its natural environment
An empirical example for ESIs: Material balances and intensities for the Austrian economy
Purposive interventions into life processes (PILs)
Conclusions
References
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