Technical Sessions*

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Social Framework in Industrial Ecology I (Chair:G.Unruh)

• Radical Reformism:Embedding Industrial Ecology into Modernity (Orssatto)

• Integrating Intelligent Trial and Error into Industrial Ecology (Howard, Woodhouse, Swearengen)

• Industrial Ecology:The Discipline and Its Relation to the Real World (Røine,Keitsch)

• Do Local Decision-Makers Ask for Substance Flow Analysis?(Lindqvist,Eklund)

 

Thermodynamics and Industrial Ecology (Chair:B.Bakshi)

• Exergy,Emergy,and Life Cycle Assessment (Bakshi, Hau,Ukidwe)

• Entropy Production as a Measure for Resource Use Applied to Metallurgical Processes (Goessling)

• Thermodynamics Applied.Where? Why? (Hirs)

• Entropy as a Quality Measure for Industrial Metals Management (Rechberger)

 

Theory in Substance Flow Analysis (Chair:B.Karn)

• Integrating an Actor-oriented Perspective into Regional Resource Management (Kytzia,Faist,Baccini)

• Study on Development of Environmental Indicators for Evaluation of Organic Resource Cycle System (Matsumoto,Imura)

• GREAT-ER — A New Decision Support Tool for Management and Risk Assessment of Chemicals in River Basins (Schowanek,Feijtel)

 

Spatial Economics and Industrial Ecology (Chairs:J.van den Bergh and M.Janssen)

• The Evolution of Industrial Symbiotic Networks -The Case of Kalundborg (Jacobsen,Anderberg)

• Self-organization,Cooperation and Industrial Symbiosis (Janssen,Boons)

• Waste Management Policies :An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis (Bartelings,van Ierland,Dellink)

• Recycling, International Trade and the Environment:An Empirical Analysis (van Beukering)

 

Theory in Life Cycle Assessment (Chair:J.Ertel)

• Towards a More Credible Handling of Environmental Values in LCA Studies (Bengtsson)

• Life Cycle Activity Analysis:A Optimizing Approach to Industrial Ecology (Freire,Thore)

• Risk T ade-off Analysis of Demand-side Management:Combining Life-Cycle Assessment and Risk Assessment (Nishioka,Levy,Norris,Wilson,Hofstetter,Spengler)

 

Theory in Corporate Integration (Chair:B.Pfahl)

• Environmental Communication of Japanese Industry (Aoyagi-Usui)

• Organisational Challenges to Industrial Ecology:A Comparative Analysis of Three Companies ’ Efforts to Develop Environmentally Responsible Corporate Cultures (Dahl ,Hagen,Larssæther) Full paper available from authors

 

Social Framework for Industrial Ecology II (Chair:C.Andrews)

• The Social and Political Context of Industrial Ecology:Extrapolations on the Theory of Ecological Modernization (Cohen)

• Ecological Modernisation (Hotta) Full paper available from author

• Postindustrial Ecology (Unruh)

 

Material Flow Analysis in National Economies I (Chair:M.Fischer-Kowalski)

• Key Questions to MFA for National Economies (Fischer-Kowalski)

• Material Flow Analysis for the European Union and Beyond —Implications for Statistics and Policy (Bringezu)

• Lessons from Japanese MFA (Moriguchi)

 

Closing the Loop (Chair:N.Lawson)

• System Modelling for Decision Support in Industrial Ecology (Clift,Mellor,Williams,Azapagic,Stevens)

• Evaluating Alternative Life-Cycle Strategies for Electrical Appliances by Waste Input-Output Model (Nakamura, Kondo)

• The Economics of Downcycling (Pelletiere)

 

Industrial Symbiosis I (Chair:M.Chertow)

• Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development (Barnes)

• Sustainability in an Eco-Industrial Park (Powell)

• Building a New Ecopark in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda (Catalonia) (Gabarrell-Durany,Huguet)

 

Modeling (Chair:A.Grimvall)

• Substance Flow Normalisation (Grimvall,Löfving)

• Agent Based model of Gene Flow from Crops and its Implications for Sustainability of Genetic Modification (Nikolic, van der Voet,Huele,Korevaar,Harmsen)

• Infrastructure Ecology (Dijkema,Ehrenfeld,Verhoef,Reuter)

 

Indicators (Chair:Ø.Hagen)

• Sustainability Spaces:A New Concept to Evaluate Development Using Indicator Systems (Binder,Wiek,Fenchel)

• Indicators for Eco-efficiency in Recycling Systems (Eik,Brattebo,Saugen,Solem,Steinmo) full paper available

• Challenges in Making and Using Social Indicators for Sustainable Development, abstract (Hagen)

 

Corporate Integration in Practice (Chair:B.Pfahl)

• Environmental-Economic Supply Chain Management of Suppliers,Contract Manufacturers and Recyclers:The Big Challenge of an Original Equipment Manufacturer (Nagel)

• STABIS:An Integrated Environmental Management Tool (Posch)

• Case Study:“Green ” Construction and Environmental Management System Implementation at a Small Parts Manufacturing Facility Using the Concepts of Industrial Ecology (Russell,Peters)

 

General Policy Issues (Chair:R.Jain)

• “Transition Management ” in the Netherlands (Hekkert,Smits,van Lente )

• Transition Management (Loorbach,Rotmans)

• Long-term Energy Efficiency Agreements Between Dutch Industry and Government (van Dril,van der Palen)

 

Life Cycle Assessment Cases (Chair:J.Ertel)

• The Ecological Footprint of a Mobile Phone (Frey, Harrison,Billett)

• Greening of the Ivory Tower (Gloria,Norris)

• Hydrogen Production and Fuel Cell Cars:A Life-cycle Assessment (Hertwich,Stromman )

 

Sustainable Cities/Tourism (Chair:G.Keoleian)

• Integrated Urban Planning and Estimation System for Recycle Oriented Sustainable City (Fujita,Morioka)

• Tourism and Environmental Impacts:A Look at Sustainability (Ng,Bergman,Graham-Brown,Farber,Horvath )

• Urban Energy Metabolism:Framework and Case Study (Melaina,Keoleian) full paper available from author

 

Education (Chair:S.Lemkowitz)

• Practical Experience in Teaching Industrial Ecology to International Students at a European Technological University (Lemkowitz,Lameris,Korevaar)

• Industrial Ecology Curriculum at NTNU:An Interdisciplinary Approach (Keitsch)

• Environmental Issues in Manufacturing for Engineers:An Interdisciplinary Course at Northeastern University (Isaacs)

• Education:Industrial Ecology Through the Lens of Product Design (Thorpe)

 

Material Flow Analysis in National Economies II (Chair:C.Amann)

• Methodological Experiences from Advising the Generation of National Material Flow Analysis ’ in Developing Countries (Amann)

• Testing the Kuznets Environmental Curve in the Input of Materials in Economy (Ferrão,Conceição,Canas)

• Analyzing Material Flows:A Necessary Condition Towards Sustainable Development in Taiwan (Hsiao, Hwa Yu,Wernick)

• Measuring Sustainability Through Materials Flow Analysis of Industrial Systems in Antarctica (Klee)

 

Industrial Ecology:The Metaphor (Chair:J.Korhonen)

• Industrial Ecology ’s Hidden Philosophy of Nature:Fundamental Underpinning to Use Nature as Model (Isenmann)

• Industrial Ecology:A Paradigmatic and Practical Source for Sustainability (Korhonen )

• Production Systems in Industry and Ecology:Some Comparisons Relevant to Industrial Ecology (Levine), full paper available from author

• Industrial Ecology:The Biosphere-Technosphere Analogy Applied to Evolutionary Processes". (van der Voet,Huele,Stevers), full paper available from author

 

Structural Change and Economics (Chair:J.van den Bergh and M.Janssen)

• Exergy and Work:Accounting for the Solow Residual (Ayres)

• An Approach to Dynamic Environmental Life-cycle Assessment by Evaluating Structural Economic Sequences (Gloria)

• Assessing the Dynamics of Industrial Ecosystems (Ruth)

• Structural Decomposition of the Iron,Steel and Plastic Flows in the Dutch Economy,1990-1997 (Hoekstra,vanden Bergh )

 

Closing the Loop:Soft Barriers (Chair:D.Pelletiere)

• Industrial Symbiosis:No Time to Waste (Aragao) paper abstract available

• Overcoming Opposition to Using Recycled Materials:Industrial Ecology in Manchester (Douglas,Lawson)

• Policy Design for Material Recovery Systems:A Case Study of Policy and Technology Based Obstacles for Eco-efficiency in the Recycling System of Plastic Packaging from Households in Trondheim,Norway (Opoku,Eik)

• Unique Non-Profit Assists Auto Recycler with Environmental Compliance (Scannell)

 

Material Flow Analysis in National Economies III (Chair:D.Müller)

• Multi-Stakeholder Decision Support in Long-Term Construction Material Chain Management (Müller)

• Biological Metabolism and the Material Flow Balances of the Food Flux (Mäenpää,Risku-Norja,Koikkalainen, Rikkonen,Vanhala)

• Creating National Physical Material Flow Accounts (Rogich)
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• Material Inputs in the Portuguese Economy:The DMI Approach (Ferrão,Conceição,Canas)

 

Policy Cases in Industrial Ecology (Chair:C.Ryan)

• Free Riding in Voluntary Programs:The Case of the USEPA WasteWise Program (Delmas,Keller) full paper available from author

• Renewables as Chemical Feedstocks:An Assessment Prepared Under the European Climate Change Programme (Patel,Bastioli,Doutlik,Ehrenberg,Johansson,Käb,Klumpers)

• Techno-economic Life Cycle Modeling (Gielen, Moriguchi), full paper available, for more information see EMP project site

• Ecodesign in the EU:Can We Hope for Factor X? (Tukker)

 

Eco-Design I (Chair:W.Knight)

• Methodology for the Design of Sustainable Chemical Processes (Korevaar,Harmsen,Lemkowitz)

• Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry (Lankey,Anastas)

• Life-Cycle Assessment of Toner Particles (Ahmadi, Williamson,Theis,Powers)

 

Social Framework for Industrial Ecology III (Chair:F.Berkhout)

• Solving New Environmental Problems by Going Beyond Regulation and Response (Andrews)

• Stakeholder Involvement in Life-Cycle Assessment (Anex)

• Individuals,Social Groups,and Institutions:An Examination of the Locus of Decision Making with Major Impact on the Environment (Duchin)

• Implementing Industrial Ecology —A Policy Science Exercise? (Tukker)

 

Regional Material Flow Analysis (Chair:J.Isaacs)

• On MFA and Policy Making,or What if Data Uncertainties Were Considered?(Burström,Danius)

• A System to Optimize Regional Material and Energy Flow for Designing Recycling Society (Goto,Fujie,Usui)

• Improved Environmental Performance by Means of System Innovation and Networking:Case of a Regional Energy Supply System (Hämäläinen,Siikavirta)

 

Industrial Symbiosis II (Chair:M.Chertow)

• Fulfilling Taiwan ’s Aspiration of Becoming the “Green Silicon Island ” through Industrial Ecology (Hu,Chong), paper abstract, full paper available from author

• Construction of Cycle-Oriented Industrial Complex Systems:Strategies for Planning and Estimation (Morioka,Yoshida,Fujimura)

• Industrial Symbiosis as Economic Development (Chertow)

• Evaluation and Monitoring of Ecoefficiency in Ecoparks: A Case Study from the Ora Ecopark in Norway (Thoresen)

 

Eco-Design II (Chair:W.Knight)

• Models and Tools for End-of-Life Product Management (Sodhi ,Knight)

• The GQFD as a Methodology of Environmentally-conscious Manufacturing (Raggi,Petti,Mercuri)

• Advances in Design for Environment at Motorola:5 years of Lessons Learned (Mueller,Riess,Stutz,Schnecke,Pongratz,Hoffman,Nicolaescu,Scheifers,Pfahl)

 

Corporate Integration -ICT (Chair:H.S.Matthews)

• Economic and Environmental Implications of On-line Retailing in the United States (Matthews,Hendrickson)

• The Environmental Benefits and Costs of Telework (Kitou,Horvath,Masanet)

• Will Industrial Ecology Give Way to Service Ecology?:A Critical Review of Ideas and Research on “sustainable (product)Service Systems ” (Mont,Ryan)

 

Substance Flow Analysis Cases (Chair:B.Karn)

• Toxic Accumulation in Efficient Recycling:Societal Cadmium Dynamics and Recycling of Phosphorus (Fredrikson,Karlsson,Holmberg)

• Grand Technological Nutrient Cycles:A Survey and Status Report (Graedel,Klee)

• The Contemporary European Copper Cycle:One Year Stocks and Flows (Spatari,Graedel,Bertram,Rechberger)

• Sustainable Metals Flow Management:First Steps in the Region of Hamburg (von Gleich)