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category: Business & Economics
published: Jul 2006
ISBN:9780774812146
publisher: UBC Press

Linking Industry and Ecology

A Question of Design

edited by Ray Côté; James Tansey & Ann Dale

tagged: sustainable development, green business, environmental economics, environmental conservation & protection, ecology
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

Ray Côté


James Tansey


Ann Dale

Contributor Notes

Ray Côté is a professor of resource and environmental studies at Dalhousie University. James Tansey is James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Ann Dale is a professor in the Science, Technology, and Environment Division at Royal Roads University. She is a Trudeau Fellow and holds a Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development

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