Changing stocks, flows, and behaviors in industrial ecosystems
Industrial ecology provides a consistent material and energetic description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. The contributors to this book offer methodologies for such descriptions, focusing on the dynamics associated with...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar
c2008
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Industrial ecology provides a consistent material and energetic description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. The contributors to this book offer methodologies for such descriptions, focusing on the dynamics associated with stocks of materials and capital, flows of raw materials, intermediate products, desired outputs and wastes, as well as the associated changes in behaviors of producers, consumers and institutions pt. 1. Background and concepts -- pt. 2. Stocks and flows dynamics -- pt. 3. Agent-based analysis of dynamic industrial ecosystems |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 150 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9781847207401 1847207405 9781848445130 |