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The Resource Optimization
Initiative (ROI)

The Resource Optimization Initiative (ROI), a not-for-profit entity, has been set up to introduce planning and tools, based on Industrial Ecology, to policy makers in governments and businesses of developing countries. This link is dedicated to the memory of Ramesh Ramaswamy, who with Suren Erkman, established the ROI and collected the myraid of cases and examples that the website contains. Click here to navigate to the ROI website.

Industrial Ecology promises to be a new exciting platform for planning - for regional development and for business. Such plans are built on an understanding of the flow of material and energy in a defined system and not just on the basis of monetary indicators. Such a system of planning is particularly relevant in developing countries, where resources are often priced according to the ability of the citizens to pay rather than on the basis of market forces. Industrial Ecology would be relevant in a variety of fields - some of which are planning agro-industrial systems, transportation systems, land use management and planning industrial estates.


 
 

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