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This book explores the disciplinary interfaces and practical
implications of working across the two disciplines of industrial
ecology (IE) and innovation studies (IS). Both disciplines have
something to say about instigating environmental improvement and
more sustainable futures. IE is predicated on the idea that social
and economic systems mirror, or should be made to mirror, natural
ecological systems. Proponents of IE devise models and techniques
to trace material and energy resource flows as they move through
social and economic systems. They propose policy and management
improvements to increase the resource efficiency of such systems.
By contrast, IS researchers work with the idea that innovation is a
dynamic activity, vital to social and economic change and is shaped
by a range of actors in industry, in government and in households.
The authors illustrate the conceptual and practical problems and
opportunities of working across this bi-disciplinary interface,
with case studies presented from each and from hybrid perspectives
that draw on both. These include applied examples from IE such as
an evaluation of industrial symbiosis in the UK and from working
projects in industrialising countries. Cases that originate with IS
cover the areas of food, construction and waste incineration. New
directions for conceptual development and further research are also
offered. Conceptual blindspots and research gaps are identified at
the interface of the two disciplines. Industrial Ecology and Spaces
of Innovation will appeal to a wide and interdisciplinary audience
including academics and researchers of environmental innovation,
management and economics, industrial ecology and schools of
environmental engineering. Business environmental practitioners,
consultants and managers working with techniques such as life-cycle
analysis, environmental impact assessment and collaborative
industrial symbiosis initiatives will also find much to engage them
within this book.
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