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The social embeddedness of industrial ecology /

1847207820

1848448007

9781847207821

9781848448001

b731795

The social embeddedness of industrial ecology /

[Book]

edited by Frank Boons and Jennifer Howard-Grenville.

Cheltenham :

Edward Elgar,

©2009.

xvi, 284 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Outline of the Social Science Potential -- 1. Introducing the social embeddedness of industrial ecology / Frank Boons and Jennifer Howard-Grenville -- 2. Ecology in the social sciences: an overview / Frank Boons -- 3. Don't fence me in ... / Henrikke Baumann -- First intermezzo: Out into the open: the promise of dialogue / Frank Boons -- Pt. II. Regional Approaches -- 4. Eco-industrial parks and industrial ecology: strategic niche or mainstream development? / David Gibbs -- 5. Facilitating regional industrial symbiosis: network growth in the UK's national industrial symbiosis programme / Raymond Paguin and Jennifer Howard-Grenville -- 6. social embeddedness of industrial symbiosis linkages in Puerto Rican industrial regions / Marian R. Chertow and Weslynne S. Ashton -- Second intermezzo: A transdisciplinary perspective on industrial ecology research / Cynthia Mitchell -- Third intermezzo: Regional eco-industrial development: views from different stakeholders / Anthony Chin -- Pt. III. Product Chain Approaches -- 7. Transgenic crops in Brazil: scientific decision-making for social ambiguities? / Jeremy Hall and Stelvia Matos -- 8. Commodities, their life-cycle and industrial ecology / Timothy M. Koponen -- 9. Sustainable supply chain management / Stefan Seuring, Romy Morana and Yan Liu -- Fourth intermezzo: Product chain management and social sciences: path dependency, cultural validity and short- and long-term feedback loops / Claudia R. Binder -- Fifth intermezzo: The exchange of ideas between social science and engineering approaches to product chain industrial ecology / Bart van Hoof -- Pt. IV. Social Science Contribution Reconsidered -- 10. critical view on the social science contribution to industrial ecology / John Ehrenfeld -- 11. social embeddedness of industrial ecology: exploring the dynamics of industrial ecosystems / Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Frank Boons.

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From its inception, the field of industrial ecology has taken a distinctly technological approach to understanding and improving ecological consequences of industrial activities.

Further exploring such mechanisms holds promise for understanding both the barriers to, and opportunities for, altering the ecological impacts of industrial practice.

In these ways, the book develops the dialogue between social science contributors and researchers from other disciplines within the field of industrial ecology.

Increasingly however, scholars and practitioners are developing perspectives on the social embeddedness of industrial ecology: the ways in which material and energy flows in regions and product chains are shaped by the social context in which they occur.

They also include discussion explicitly on the dialogue and its value to the evolution of the field.

This book presents empirical work addressing how cognitive, cultural, political and structural mechanisms condition the emergence and operation of industrial ecology.

Through contemplative chapters and 'intermezzos', authors with different disciplinary backgrounds reflect on the contribution of work from various social sciences to industrial ecology.

Unique to the volume, the authors of the commentaries bring in their personal and professional experiences, reflecting on how they have engaged in or have seen the value in cross-disciplinary work.

Industrial ecology.

Industrial ecology.

Industriële processen.

Interdisziplinäre Forschung

Milieueffecten.

Sociale aspecten.

Sozialwissenschaft

Stoffstrommanagement

Umweltforschung

Umweltmanagement

Umweltschutz

Unternehmen

Boons, Frank.

Howard-Grenville, Jennifer A.,1969-

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