Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology
Subtitle: A Case Study of the Integrated Product Policy of the European Union (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 25, 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780415423311
Table of contents: label: List of figures
title: viii; label: List of tables
title: ix; label: Acknowledgements
title: x; label: 1 Introduction
title: 1; label: 1.1 General setting
title: 1; label: 1.2 About this book
title: 3; label: 1.3 A note on the character and role of metaphors
title: 8; label: 2 The Integrated Product Policy (IPP)
title: 11; label: 2.1 Introduction
title: 11; label: 2.2 Origins of product-oriented environmental policies in the EU
title: 12; label: 2.3 EU product-oriented environmental policies
title: 15; label: 2.4 EU Integrated Product Policy (IPP)
title: 20; label: 2.5 Product-oriented environmental policies outside the EU
title: 35; label: 2.6 Conflicting views on the IPP
title: 41; label: 2.7 In search of the conceptual background for the IPP
title: 43; label: 2.8 Summary and conclusions
title: 46; label: 3 Ecological economics
title: 48; label: 3.1 Introduction
title: 48; label: 3.2 What is ecological economics?
title: 48; label: 3.3 Primary considerations
title: 57; label: 3.4 Secondary considerations
title: 70; label: 3.5 Tertiary considerations
title: 79; label: 3.6 Summary and conclusions
title: 82; label: 4 Industrial ecology
title: 88; label: 4.1 Introduction
title: 88; label: 4.2 What is industrial ecology?
title: 89; label: 4.3 Theoretical foundations of industrial ecology
title: 93; label: 4.4 Applications of industrial ecology
title: 109; label: 4.5 Industrial ecology as part of ecological economics
title: 117; label: 4.6 Summary and conclusions
title: 122; label: 5 Life-cycle assessment (LCA) and eco-design
title: 128; label: 5.1 Introduction
title: 128; label: 5.2 Life-cycle assessment and eco-design: common foundations
title: 129; label: 5.3 Life-cycle assessment (LCA)
title: 133; label: 5.4 Eco-design
title: 143; label: 5.5 Further applications
title: 155; label: 5.6 Summary and conclusions
title: 160; label: 6 Input–output analysis
title: 163; label: 6.1 Introduction
title: 163; label: 6.2 Elementary description of input–output analysis
title: 164; label: 6.3 Input–output analysis in ecological economics and industrial ecology
title: 174; label: 6.4 Input–output analysis and life-cycle assessment (LCA)
title: 186; label: 6.5 Summary and conclusions
title: 194; label: 7 Policy analysis illustrated with case studies
title: 197; label: 7.1 Introduction
title: 197; label: 7.2 Policy implications
title: 197; label: 7.3 Case study 1: the passenger car
title: 214; label: 7.4 Case study 2: the Netherlands
title: 229; label: 7.5 Summary and conclusions
title: 237; label: 8 Conclusions
title: 243; label: 8.1 Introduction
title: 243; label: 8.2 Ecological economics and industrial ecology
title: 244; label: 8.3 The IPP, ecological economics and industrial ecology
title: 245; label: 8.4 Theoretical implications for the IPP
title: 246; label: 8.5 Areas for further research
title: 252; label: 8.6 Challenges to the successful implementation of the IPP
title: 253; label: 8.7 Final remarks
title: 254; label: Appendix 1
title: 256; label: Appendix 2
title: 262; label: Notes
title: 263; label: Bibliography
title: 268; label: Index
title: 287