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Jouni Korhonen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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management and policy aspects of Industrial Ecology an emerging research agenda
IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2007Co-Authors: Jouni Korhonen, Fredrik Von Malmborg, Peter A Strachan, John R EhrenfeldAbstract:This special issue is based on the international symposium Business and Industrial Ecology held alongside the 2003 Business Strategy and the Environment Conference in Leicester, UK. The main messag ...
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theory of Industrial Ecology the case of the concept of diversity
Progress in Industrial Ecology An International Journal, 2005Co-Authors: Jouni KorhonenAbstract:The Theory of Industrial Ecology (Korhonen, 2004a) classified the properties and characteristics of Industrial ecosystems: • the physical flows of matter and energy • the structural and organisational properties. I focus on the theory of the concept of diversity, an important concept in Ecology, biology and sustainable development research. Can the concept of diversity be valuable and useful for developing Industrial ecosystems, if yes, how, and if not, why not? A case study from energy and forest industry is analysed against diversity and other key Industrial Ecology principles. Furthermore, six arguments from the literature arguing for the value of the concept of diversity are evaluated. The article contributes by identifying and analysing the many different dimensions that the concept of diversity has. The definition, understanding and perception of the concept strongly affect its value. This suggests that the dominant engineering and natural science aspects of Industrial Ecology need to be bridged to business, management, organisational and policy studies, to social sciences and cultural studies.
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management and policy aspects of Industrial Ecology an emerging research agenda
Business Strategy and The Environment, 2004Co-Authors: Jouni Korhonen, Fredrik Von Malmborg, Peter A Strachan, John R EhrenfeldAbstract:This special issue is based on the international symposium Business and Industrial Ecology held alongside the 2003 Business Strategy and the Environment Conference in Leicester, UK. The main message is that the dominant natural science and engineering aspects of Industrial Ecology (IE) need to be linked to management and policy studies. IE has rapidly evolved into a new field with the concept of an ‘Industrial ecosystem’ that uses the metaphor of sustainable ecosystems to provide innovative routes to change present unsustainable Industrial systems. The editorial article identifies three themes as organizing categories in linking IE to management and policy studies. First, the systems and network philosophy of IE can be coupled with inter-organizational management studies to complement the more traditional intra-organizational environmental management. Second, management and policy studies complement descriptive IE studies of physical flows of matter and energy to produce prescriptive suggestions for how Industrial systems can be moved through human action toward the vision of IE. Third, the metaphor is a source of inspiration and creativity in the transformation of management and strategic visions towards a new sustainability culture. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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two paths to Industrial Ecology applying the product based and geographical approaches
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2002Co-Authors: Jouni KorhonenAbstract:The development of the practical side of the concept of Industrial Ecology has taken two different but interrelated paths during the last two decades: the product-based systems perspective; and the geographically defined local-regional Industrial ecosystem approach. Both approaches focus on material and energy flows aiming at reducing the Industrial system's virgin resource use and waste and emission outputs. The ideal has arisen to mimic the model of a sustainable natural ecosystem, which relies solely on solar energy as the input and creates cyclical flows of materials (and related energy cascades) between organisms and in the food chain. It is argued in the Industrial Ecology literature that wastes, as defined in human Industrial system terms, are non-existent in the natural recycling system. In this paper, an application of the product-based systems approach is given with paper life cycles and a basic life cycle inventory model. An application to the regional approach is presented in the regional energy supply system of the city of Jyvaskyla in Finland. The paper aims at discussing the two approaches in Industrial Ecology and considers their contradictory characteristics as well as their similarities. When the basic vision and the overriding goal is the local Industrial ecosystem, the product-based approach can serve as an inventory tool to support the project. In this situation, the two approaches would seem to be each other's complement. When the two approaches are adopted as each other's substitute, they may support conflicting decisions for environmental policy and management. This may create difficulties in the implementation of Industrial Ecology. On the basis of both of the approaches to Industrial Ecology, the external environment of an organization is considered to comprise the societal material and energy flow environment and the natural material and energy flow environment .
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regional Industrial Ecology examples from regional economic systems of forest industry and energy supply in finland
Journal of Environmental Management, 2001Co-Authors: Jouni KorhonenAbstract:Industrial Ecology (IE) promotes the development of Industrial systems based on recycling of matter and cascading of energy through cooperation. In this paper, the local/regional Industrial ecosystem approach is reflected in two examples from Finland. The local forest industry system is based on renewable resources, waste materials and energy utilisation between forestry companies, a saw-mill, a pulp mill, a paper mill and a forest industry power plant. Waste energy from electricity production is used for production of heat and process steam. Regional city energy supply systems in Finland are also to a large extent arranged around power plants that utilise waste energy. The potential of combining the forest industry system with the energy supply systems of cities is considered and the conditions for success in the Finnish case are discussed.
Leenard Baas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cleaner production and Industrial Ecology dynamic aspects of the introduction and dissemination of new concepts in Industrial practice
2005Co-Authors: Leenard BaasAbstract:textabstractThis thesis addresses the awareness-raising processes related to the development and dissemination of new concepts such as pollution prevention, cleaner production and Industrial Ecology. The concepts of Cleaner production and Pollution prevention can both be described as: `the continuous application of an integrated, preventive environmental strategy to both processes and products to reduce risks to humans and the environment’. Industrial Ecology is described as: `an integrated system, in which the consumption of energy and materials is optimised and the effluents of one process serve as the raw material(s) or energy for another process’.
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an Industrial Ecology project in practice exploring the boundaries of decision making levels in regional Industrial systems
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2004Co-Authors: Leenard Baas, Frank BoonsAbstract:Industrial Ecology is a label under which many linkages between production and consumption processes are grouped. This article is based on a social science approach, ranging from organisational learning to the analysis of Industrial districts, in reflection to the techno-economic approach of the developments in the Industrial Ecology projects ‘INES 1994–1997 and INES Mainport 1999–2002’ in the Rotterdam harbour and industry complex. In relation to the growing attention for regional types of Industrial Ecology, the article aims to provide a useful social science analytical framework for investigating regional Industrial Ecology, and to develop a prescriptive approach that can stimulate such Industrial Ecology. Regional Industrial ecological systems meet with static and dynamic issues as a result of specific system boundaries of their decision-making levels. The analytical framework provides insight into these issues through a focus on three phases of (regional) Industrial Ecology, the production of collective goods, and governance mechanisms. We find that the INES Mainport project is still in the first phase of Industrial Ecology. To go beyond this phase, the Rotterdam harbour and industry region faces the limits of system boundaries of the decision-making levels within the regional management.
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four years of experience with erasmus university s international off campus phd programme on cleaner production cleaner products Industrial Ecology and sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2000Co-Authors: Leenard Baas, D Huisingh, Wim HafkampAbstract:This paper describes the first four years' experiences with Erasmus University's “International Off-Campus PhD Programme on Cleaner Production, Cleaner Products, Industrial Ecology and Sustainabili ...
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types of Industrial Ecology the problem of coordination
Journal of Cleaner Production, 1997Co-Authors: Frank Boons, Leenard BaasAbstract:Abstract Industrial Ecology initiatives have in common the fact that they cross company boundaries, necessitating the coordination of the activities of several economic actors. This article focusses on this coordination problem. Based on organizational sociological concepts, four types of Industrial Ecology activities are distinguished. Each has its own characteristic coordination problem. From this typology, conclusions are drawn concerning the way in which Industrial Ecology initiatives can, and should, be stimulated.
Pauline Deutz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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from theory to practice enhancing the potential policy impact of Industrial Ecology
Sustainability, 2015Co-Authors: Pauline Deutz, Giuseppe IoppoloAbstract:Industrial Ecology introduced a new paradigm of principles and tools useful to academic analysis and decision support activities for industry and policymakers. This paper presents a view of the state of the art of Industrial Ecology, encompassing the four major theoretical traditions comprising the field, and emphasizing the relevance to practice. The principles of Industrial Ecology offer a basis for integrating environmental perspectives into production and consumption strategies, though there are significant challenges to be addressed.
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Industrial Ecology and regional development eco Industrial development as cluster policy
Regional Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Pauline Deutz, David GibbsAbstract:Deutz P. and Gibbs D. Industrial Ecology and regional development: eco-Industrial development as cluster policy, Regional Studies. Aspects of Industrial Ecology fit closely with work in regional development investigating clustering, networking, and local economic development. However, there has been limited cross-fertilization between these bodies of literature. This paper uses an empirical focus on eco-Industrial developments in the USA to postulate that Industrial Ecology can be viewed as a distinct cluster concept and to consider the implications of this for both Industrial Ecology and regional development policies. Deutz P. et Gibbs D. L'ecologie industrielle et l'amenagement du territoire: le developpement industriel ecologique comme politique d'agglomeration, Regional Studies. Des aspects de l'ecologie industrielle sont en correlation etroite avec des recherches dans le domaine de l'amenagement du territoire qui examinent l'agglomeration, la connexion et le developpement local economique. Cependant,...
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reflections on implementing Industrial Ecology through eco Industrial park development
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2007Co-Authors: David Gibbs, Pauline DeutzAbstract:Abstract This paper investigates whether eco-Industrial parks (EIPs) offer possibilities to implement sustainable development policies. EIPs are based upon Industrial Ecology principles that suggest Industrial systems can operate in a similar fashion to natural ecological systems. Drawing upon a survey of all identifiable EIPs in the USA and Europe and in-depth interview surveys of 16 EIPs, the research discovered few examples of networking between firms or processes using wastes and materials recycling. Most EIPs are at a very early stage of development, where linkages are potential rather than real. The problems encountered in developing EIPs from scratch suggests that a more fruitful approach is to build upon existing and potential linkages within a locality, assisted by a pro-active policy to encourage interchanges.
Marije Lafleur - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the relationship between cleaner production and Industrial Ecology
Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1997Co-Authors: Rene Van Berkel, Esther Willems, Marije LafleurAbstract:Summary Industrial Ecology is an emerging concept for the promotion of environmentally sound manufacturing and consumption. It aims to balance Industrial development with the sustainable use of natural resources including energy, materials, and the capacity of the environment to assimilate wastes and render valuable services. The widespread adoption of Industrial Ecology can be furthered by a critical review of current preventive activities in industry. This article reviews the role that current preventive environmental activities-known as cleaner production-could play in the implementation of Industrial Ecology. The article focuses on whether cleaner production in its present form is sufficient, in terms of breadth of both Industrial activities (sources) and environmental concerns (impacts addressed), for achieving Industrial Ecology's core objectives. It is concluded that current cleaner production practices are not sufficient for achieving the ultimate goals of Industrial Ecology. Nevertheless, cleaner production practices and methodologies may evolve into useful instruments for the implementation of Industrial Ecology.
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development of an Industrial Ecology toolbox for the introduction of Industrial Ecology in enterprises i
Journal of Cleaner Production, 1997Co-Authors: Rene Van Berkel, Esther Willems, Marije LafleurAbstract:Abstract Industrial Ecology (IE) is an emerging concept for the promotion of environmentally sound manufacturing and consumption. It aims to balance Industrial development with the sustainable use of natural resources. This paper proposes a framework for the comparative analysis and evaluation of methods used for the practical implementation of IE in enterprises. The IE tools are organised in a toolbox since it is envisioned that, once the framework has proven to be valuable for the evaluation of past IE activities in enterprises, it may also be of use for the planning of new IE activities in different Industrial enterprises. The tools are to enable enterprises to organise their IE efforts, to identify, evaluate and implement environmental improvements in their processes and products as well as in the production chains and Industrial sites they are part of, and to evaluate progress in reducing environmental impacts. In this paper, a division into four functional types of tools is made: inventory tools; improvement tools; prioritisation tools; management tools. For each category of tools, several example tools are given. The inter-relatedness of the functional types of tools is briefly addressed and illustrated with practical experiences from the manufacturing industry. It turns out that the limited normalisation of IE tools could act as a barrier for the widespread application of IE. The application of the toolbox for the comparative evaluation of IE tools may catalyse the development of effective tools and generate insight into their most powerful applications. Such insight is in turn needed to use the toolbox for planning of future IE activities in enterprises.
Edgar G Hertwich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Industrial Ecology in integrated assessment models
Nature Climate Change, 2017Co-Authors: Stefan Pauliuk, Anders Arvesen, Konstantin Stadler, Edgar G HertwichAbstract:An in-depth review of five major integrated assessment models from an Industrial Ecology perspective reveals differences between the fields regarding the modelling of linkages in the Industrial system. Technology-rich integrated assessment models (IAMs) address possible technology mixes and future costs of climate change mitigation by generating scenarios for the future Industrial system. Industrial Ecology (IE) focuses on the empirical analysis of this system. We conduct an in-depth review of five major IAMs from an IE perspective and reveal differences between the two fields regarding the modelling of linkages in the Industrial system, focussing on AIM/CGE, GCAM, IMAGE, MESSAGE, and REMIND. IAMs ignore material cycles and recycling, incoherently describe the life-cycle impacts of technology, and miss linkages regarding buildings and infrastructure. Adding IE system linkages to IAMs adds new constraints and allows for studying new mitigation options, both of which may lead to more robust and policy-relevant mitigation scenarios.
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prospective models of society s future metabolism what Industrial Ecology has to contribute
2016Co-Authors: Stefan Pauliuk, Edgar G HertwichAbstract:Scientific assessment of sustainable development strategies provides decision-makers with quantitative information about the strategies’ potential effect. This assessment is often done by forward-looking or prospective computer models of society’s metabolism and the natural environment. Computer models in Industrial Ecology (IE) have advanced rapidly over the recent years, and now, a new family of prospective models is available to study the potential effect of sustainable development strategies at full scale.
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Consumption and the rebound effect - An Industrial Ecology perspective
Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2005Co-Authors: Edgar G HertwichAbstract:Measures taken to protect the environment often have other, unintended effects on society. One concern is that changed behavior may offset part of the environmental gain, something that has variously been labeled "take-back" or "rebound." In energy economics, the rebound effect encompasses both the behavioral and systems responses to cost reductions of energy services as a result of energy efficiency measures. From an Industrial Ecology perspective, we are concerned about more than just energy use. Any given efficiency measure has several types of environmental impacts. Changes in the various impact indicators are not necessarily in the same direction. Both co-benefits and negative side effects of measures directed to solve one type of problem have been identified. Environment is often a free input, so that a price-based rebound effect is not expected, but other indirect effects not connected to the price, such as spillover of environmental behavior, also occur. If the costs and impact of products that are already environmentally friendly are reduced, the "rebound" can be in the opposite, desired direction. Furthermore, I identify technical spillover effects. Hence a number of related effects, often producing positive results, are not as well understood. Household environmental impact assessments and eco-efficiency assessments take into account the rebound effect, but they do not necessarily take into account these other effects. The analysis hence indicates that the current focus on the rebound effect is too narrow and needs to be extended to cover co-benefits, negative side effects, and spillover effects.