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Business & Economics Sustainable Development

Linking Industry and Ecology

A Question of Design

edited by Ray Côté, James Tansey & Ann Dale

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2005
Category
Sustainable Development, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Green Business, Environmental Economics, Ecology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774832687
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812146
    Publish Date
    Jul 2006
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812139
    Publish Date
    Dec 2005
    List Price
    $95.00

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It might, at first glance, seem to many that industry and ecology make strange bedfellows. For proponents of sustainable development, however, such a union is crucial. How else are we to make the industries that are so central to modern societies consistent with our visions of a sustainable future?

Linking Industry and Ecology explores the origins, promise, and relevance of the emerging field of industrial ecology. It situates industrial ecology within the broader range of environmental management strategies and concepts, from the practices of pollution prevention through life cycle management, to the more fundamental shift toward dematerialization and ecological design. The book makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy.

The contributors to this volume draw on their experience in a variety of disciplines to chart a clear path for industrial ecology. Their work not only affirms what has been learned to date in this nascent field but also provides new insight for a discourse traditionally dominated by natural scientists and engineers, by demonstrating that technologies are socially and politically embedded.

About the authors

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Ann Dale is a professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development at Royal Roads University.

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