Journal of Industrial Ecology  Ph.D. Dissertations by Subject Area  The subject area categories are based on the topic listings used for illustrative purposes by the Journal of Industrial Ecology. These categories are neither mutually exclusive nor collectively exhaustive. Nor are they meant to be definitive in classifying the subject areas that comprise industrial ecology. Rather they are intended as aids to the user for browsing the listings. Please note that difficulties with the subject categories can be circumvented by using keyword searching. Also please note that a few subject areas below do not yet contain any entries.          Materials and Energy Flow Studies    Dematerialization and Decarbonization    Life Cycle Design, Planning, and Assessment    Design for Environment    Extended Producer Responsibility    Industrial Ecosystems and Eco-Industrial Parks    Product Oriented Environmental Policy    Regulation and Policy    Eco-Efficiency    Industry, Technology Change and the Environment    Corporate Environmental Management    Other    Return to the Dissertation  Menu Page         Design for Environment  Dowie, Tracy A.. 1995. A Disassembly Planning and Optimisation Methodology for Design. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.  Low, Ming Kaan. 1997. Design and Financial Aspects of the End-of-Life Management of Telecommunications Products. Loughborough University, UK. O'Connor, Frank. 2000. A Nulti-Stakeholder Abridged Environmentally Conscious Design Approach. University of Glamorgan, UK. Rose, Catherine M. 2000. Design for Environment: A Method for Formulating Product End-of-Life Strategies. Stanford University, USA. Steele, Nancy Lee Clark. 1995. Electric Vehicle Batteries and the Environment: Assessing Recycling and Waste Management. University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Smith, Joyce. 1996. The Measurement of the Environmental Performance of Industrial Processes: A Framework for the Incorporation of Environmental Considerations into Process Selection and Design. Duke University, USA. Stuart, Julie Ann. 1996. A Strategic Environmentally Conscious Production Decision Model. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. van Beukering, Pieter. 2001.  International trade, recycling and the environment: an empirical analysis.  Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands van Hemel, Carolien. 1998. EcoDesign Empirically Explored: Design for Environment in Dutch small and medium sized enterprises. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Dematerialization and Decarbonization  Hekkert, Marko.  2000. Improving Material Management to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.  Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Gielen, Dolf.  1999.  Materialising Dematerialisation: Integrated Energy and Materials Systems Engineering for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation.  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Industrial Ecosytems and Eco-Industrial Parks  Kassinis, Georgios Ioannis.  1997.  Industrial Reorganization and Inter-Firm Networking:  In Search of Environmental Co-location Economies.  Princeton University, USA.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Life Cycle Design, Planning, and Assessment  Baumann, Henrikke 1998. Life Cycle Assessment and Decision Making: Theories and practices.  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.  Ciantar, Christopher. 2000. Sustainable Development of Refrigerator Systems Using Replacement Environmentally Acceptable Refrigerants. Bournemouth University, UK. Cowell, Sarah J. 1998. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Agricultural Systems: Integration Into Decision-Making .  University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. Ekvall, Tomas. 1999. System Expansion and Allocation in Life Cycle Assessment - With Implications for Wastepaper Management.  Technical Environmental Planning, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Finnveden, Goran. 1998. On the Possibilities of Life-Cycle Assessment: Development of Methodology and Review of Case Studies.  Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Sweden. Frischknecht, Rolf. 1998. Life Cycle Inventory Analysis for Decision-Making: Scope-Dependent Inventory System Models and Context-Specific Joint Product Allocation.  Energy Technology Department, ETH Zuerich (now: ESU-services, Uster), Switzerland. Georgakellos, Dimitris. 1997. Packaging Waste Management: Life Cycle Analysis of Various Packaging Materials in Greece and their Consequences on the Quality of the Environment .  Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus, Greece. Giudice, Fabio. 2000. Life-Cycle Design for Environmental Quality of Products: Integrated Design System. Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, University of Catania, Italy Hertwich, Edgar. 1999. Toxic Equivalency: Addressing Human Health Effects in Life Cycle Impact Assessment.  Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Hofstetter, Patrick. 1998.  Perspectives in Life Cycle Impact Assessment  A Structured Approach to Combine Models of the Technosphere, Ecosphere and Valuesphere.  ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Horvath, Arpad. 1997.  Estimation of Environmental Implications of Construction Material and Designs Using Life Cycle Assessement Techniques (Bridges and Pavement).  Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Jungbluth, Niels.  2000. Environmental consequences of food consumption: A modular life cycle assessment to evaluate product characteristics. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Jönsson, Åsa. 1998. Life Cycle Assessment of Building Products - Case studies and methodology.  Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. Joshi, Satish. 1998. Comprehensive Product Life-Cycle Analysis Using Input-Output Techniques.  Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Karlsson, Reine. 1998. Life Cycle Considerations in Sustainable Business Development. Eco-efficiency studies in Swedish industries..  Department of Physical Resource Theory, School of Environmental Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Sweden. Krikke, Harold. 1998. Recovery Strategies and Reverse Logistic Network Design.  University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Lankey, Rebecca. 1998. Materials Management and Recycling for Nickel-Cadmium Batteries.  Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Lundie, Sven. 1997. Life Cycle Assessment and Decision Making Theory - Practice-oriented Product Assessment on the Basis of Societal Values.  Universität Lüneburg, Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Matthews, H. Scott. 1999. The External Costs of Air Pollution and the Environmental Impact of the Consumer in the US Economy.  Carnegie Mellon University, USA.    Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Materials and Energy Flow Studies  Bjorklund, Anna. 1998. Environmental Systems Analysis of Waste Management, with Emphasis on Substance Flows and Environmental Impact. Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.  Bailey, Reid. 2000. Input-Output Modeling of Material Flows in Industry. Georgia Tech, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Burstrom, Fredrik. 1998. Municipal Materials Accounting and Environmental Management. Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Patel, Martin. 1999.  Closing Carbon Cycles - Carbon use for Materials in the Context of Resource efficiency and Climate Change Pesonen, Hanna-Leena. 1999. From Material Flows to Cash Flows - An Extension to Traditional Material Flow Modelling. Tukker, Arnold. 1998. Frames in the Toxicity Controversy: Based on the Dutch Chlorine Debate and the Swedish PVC Debate. van der Voet, Ester. 1996. Substances from Cradle to Grave. Development of a Methodology for the Analysis of Substance Flows through the Economy and the Environment of a Region, with Case Studies on Cadmium and Nitrogen Compounds.  Leiden University, The Netherlands.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Regulation and Policy  Holmberg, John. 1995.  Socio-Ecological Principles and Indicators for Sustainability.  Goteborg University, Sweden.  Romeijn, Paul. 1999. Green Gold; on Variations of Truth in Plantation Forestry.  Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.   Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Extended Producer Responsiblity  Rydén, Erik. 1995.  Car Scrap-Throw It Away? or Make It Pay?.  International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Product Oriented Environmental Policy  de Bakker, Frank G.A. 2001. Product Oriented Environmental Management. Twente University, The Netherlands.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Eco-Efficiency  Meijkamp, Rens.  2000. Changing Consumer Behaviour Through Eco-Efficient Services; An Empirical Study on Car Sharing in the Netherlands.  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.  Heijungs, Reinout.  1997.  Economic Drama and the Environmental Stage:  Formal Derivation of Algorithmic Tools for Environmental Analysis and Decision-Support from a Unified Epistemological Principle.  Leiden University, The Netherlands.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Industry, Technology Change and the Environment  Sonnenfeld, David.  1996.  Greening the tiger? Social movements' influence on adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page Corporate Environmental Management  den Hond, Frank. 1996. In Search of a Useful Theory of Environmental Strategy-A Case Study on the Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles from the Capabilities Perspective.  Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Hoffman, Andrew J. 1995. The Environmental Transformation of American Industry: An Institutional Account of Organziational Evolution in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries (1960-1993).  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Prakash, Aseem. 1997. A Logic of Corporate Environmentalism: Beyond-Compliance Environmental Policymaking in Baxter International Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company.  School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Strannegard, Lars. 1998. Green Ideas in Business. GRI, Goteborg University, Sweden. van Berkel, René.  1995.  Cleaner Production in Practice:  Methodology Development for Environmental Improvement of Industrial Production and Evaluation of Practical Experiences.  University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page   Other  Connelly, Lloyd. 1998.  Reconciling Consumption and Conservation: Using An Exergy-based Measure of Consumption to Strengthen The Conceptual Framework of Industrial Ecology.  University of California at Berkeley, USA.  Return to the Dissertation Subject List  Return to the Dissertation Menu Page