Where ecology
is the study of communities of living organisms, industrial ecology is the study
of how industrial processes in the environment.
- product-oriented environmental policy
- eco-efficiency
- material and energy flows studies, often called industrial
metabolism.
- life cycle planning, design and assessment
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Like ecology, industrial ecology also deals also with communities
and thus takes in the social aspects of development.
- design for communities and
the environment
- extending producer responsibility
beyond the factory gate.
- eco-industrial parks.
Industrial ecology borrows words from ecology, such as symbiosis,
to signify what we need to learn to live sustainably.
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