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Industrial ecology in the strategic sustainable development model: strategic applications of industrial ecology
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In this paper, the authors evaluate the concept of industrial ecology (IE) by considering its application and use in terms of the strategic sustainable development model and show that if IE is used outside the systems model, four risks and difficulties are generated that can lead to suboptimal solutions, problem displacement and problem shifting.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2004-10-01. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Industrial ecology & Sustainability.read more
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Circular Economy: The Concept and its Limitations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the concept of circular economy from the perspective of WCED sustainable development and sustainability science, and conduct a critical analysis of the concept from a perspective of environmental sustainability, identifying six challenges, for example those of thermodynamics and system boundaries, that need to be resolved for CE to contribute to global net sustainability.
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Circular economy as an essentially contested concept
TL;DR: The Circular Economy (CE) is currently a popular notion within the policy and business advocacy groups as mentioned in this paper. But despite being visionary and provocative in its message, the research on the CE concept is eme...
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Making connections: a review of supply chain management and sustainability literature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate systematically the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) within the context of sustainability, and present a systematic review of current SCM literature, specifically in relation to the social and environmental dimensions of sustainability.
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Industrial Symbiosis in Kalundborg, Denmark: A Quantitative Assessment of Economic and Environmental Aspects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the industrial symbiosis complex in Kalundborg, Denmark and found that both substantial and minor environmental benefits accrue from these industrial symbiotic exchanges and that economic motivation often is connected to upstream or downstream operational performance and not directly associated with the value of the exchanged byproduct or waste itself.
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Complexity and Transition Management
Jan Rotmans,Derk Loorbach +1 more
TL;DR: This article presents a framework, transition management, for managing complex societal systems, based on key notions of complex systems theory, such as variation and selection, emergence, coevolution, and self-organization.
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Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate
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