Concepts and Approaches – Jelinski
April 14, 2008 by NEIL MILLER | Filed under: The EM as an Industrial Ecologist [1]
Jelinski, L. W.; Gradel, T. E.; Laudise, R. A.; McCall, D. W.; and Patel, C. K. L. Industrial ecology: Concepts and approaches. Introduction to colloquium, entitled, “Industrial Ecology”, National Academy of Sciences, May 1991.
This was an introduction to a Colloquium on the subject of Industrial Ecology (attached) and the need to educate people to become leaders in the field. This is a very good paper, with excellent refrences.
ABSTRACT – Industrial ecology is a new approach to the industrial design of products and processes and the implementation of sustainable manufacturing strategies. It is a concept in which an industrial system is viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems but in concert with them. Industrial ecology seeks to optimize the total materials cycle from virgn material to finished material, to component, to product, to waste product, and to ultimate disposal. To better characterize the topic, the National Academy of Sciences convened a colloquium from which were derived a number of salient contributions. This paper sets the stage for the contributions that follow and discusses how each fits into the framework of industrial ecology.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/793