Business & Economics Sustainable Development
Linking Industry and Ecology
A Question of Design
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2005
- Category
- Sustainable Development, Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Green Business, Environmental Economics
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774832687
- Publish Date
- Aug 2015
- List Price
- $125.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812146
- Publish Date
- Jul 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812139
- Publish Date
- Dec 2005
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
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
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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