Industrial metabolism
Subtitle: restructuring for sustainable development
By: edited by Robert U. Ayres and Udo E. Simonis.
Contributors: Ayres, Robert U.; Simonis, Udo Ernst.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Economic development -- Environmental aspects.; Sustainable development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-373).
Table of contents: title: Industrial metabolism : theory and policy / Robert U. Ayres; title: Ecosystem and the biosphere : metaphors for human-induced material flows / Rudolf B. Husar; title: Industrial restructuring in industrial countries / Udo E. Simonis; title: Industrial restructuring in developing countries : the case of India / Rajendra K. Pachauri, Mala Damodaran, and Himraj Dang; title: Evolution, sustainability, and industrial metabolism / Peter M. Allen; title: Industrial metabolism at the national level : a case-study on chromium and lead pollution in Sweden, 1880-1980 / Ulrik Lohm, Stefan Anderberg, and Bo Bergbäck; title: Industrial metabolism at the regional level : the Rhine Basin / William M. Stigliani and Stefan Anderberg; title: Industrial metabolism at the regional and local level : a case-study on a Swiss region / Paul H. Brunner, Hans Daxbeck, and Peter Baccini; title: A historical reconstruction of carbon monoxide and methane emissions in the United States, 1880-1980 / Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, and Joel A. Tarr; title: Sulphur and nitrogen emission trends for the United States : an application of the materials flow approach / Rudolph B. Husar; title: Consumptive uses and losses of toxic heavy metals in the United States, 1880-1890 / Robert U. Ayres and Leslie W. Ayres; title: The precaution principle in environmental management / Timothy O'Riordan; title: Transfer of clean(er) technologies to developing countries / Sergio C. Trindade; title: A plethora of paradigms : outlining an information system on physical exchanges between the economy and nature / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl, and Harald Payer.