Industrial Ecology and Industry Symbiosis for Environmental Sustainability

Offers a widely-applicable framework for applying Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis within companies Explores Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis in depth to provide greater understanding of these areas Links Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis with Operations Management studies and Supply Chain Management, providing interdisciplinary appeal

Autorentext

Xiaohong Li is a senior lecturer in operations management and business modelling at the Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Prior to this, she worked as a research fellow after completing her PhD in 2000. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the International Journal of Production Research, Strategic Outsourcing: an International Journal,**and the Journal of Construction Management and Economics. Her current research focuses on environmental sustainability, particularly IE and IS.

Inhalt

1. An Introduction to Sustainability and the Closed-Loop Concept.- 2. Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis.- 3. Areas in Applied Industrial Ecology.- 4. Applications of Industrial Symbiosis.- 5. Life Cycle Thinking and Analysis Design for the Environment and Industrial Ecology Frameworks.- 6. Barriers and Enablers for Applying Industrial Ecology and Future Development.