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Industrial Ecology: Towards Closing the Materials Cycle
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This article is published in Journal of Industrial Ecology.The article was published on 1997-04-01. It has received 127 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Industrial ecology.read more
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Issues in environmentally conscious manufacturing and product recovery: a survey
TL;DR: A survey of research in ECMPRO can be found in this article, where the authors present the development of research and provide a state-of-the-art survey of published work.
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Society's Metabolism-The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis, Part I, 1860-1970
TL;DR: A review of the earlier intellectual background of societal metabolism in terms of material and substance flows can be found in this article, followed by an integrated discussion of some of the major conceptual and methodological properties of MFA, with a particular focus on the field of bulk materials flows on a national level.
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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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Backcasting — a framework for strategic planning
John Holmberg,Karl-Henrik Robèrt +1 more
TL;DR: Backcasting is a planning methodology that is particularly helpful when problems at hand are complex and when present trends are part of the problems When applied in planning towards sustainability, backcasting can increase the likelihood of handling the ecologically complex issues in a systematic and coordinated way, and also to foresee certain changes, even from a self-beneficial point of view, of the market and increase the chances of a relatively strong economic performance as discussed by the authors.
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Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that addressing multi-scale and multi-level challenges requires a collection of theories and models and suggest that the conceptual domains of sustainability, resilience, and robustness provide a sufficiently rich collection of theory and models, but overlapping definitions and confusion about how these conceptual domains articulate with one another reduces their utility.