Implementing industrial ecology : methodological tools and reflections for constructing a sustainable development / Cyril Adoue ; translated from French by S. Chambers
Published
Enfield, N.H. : Science Publishers ; Boca Raton, Fla. : Marketed and distributed by CRC Press, 2011
1. Man, a problematic resident -- 2. Industrial ecology, a global approach for a global problem -- 3. Material, water and energy flow loops, the essential questions -- 4. Feasibility of eco-industrial synergies -- 5. Tools and methods for implementing a lasting approach -- 6. What perspectives for material and energy flow loops?
Summary
This book is the fruit of the author's six years of research and fieldwork undertaken while at the Centre for Sustainable Development Research and Interdisciplinary Studies-Troyes University of Technology. The research and field work were concentrated on material and energy flow loops, the principal tool that industrial ecology puts forward in order to limit environmental and economic impacts caused by the abuse of natural resources. The book is aimed at those responsible for providing a bit of substance to the objective of sustainable development. It also aims to disseminate this information
