1 Linking Industry and Ecology in Canada: A Question of Design

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Introduction
5. Linking Industry and Ecology in Canada: A Question of Design 3
6. Design and Ecology
7. Industrial Ecology as Ecological Design: Opportunities for Re(dis)covery 15
8. Redesign as Deep Industrial Ecolog Lessons from Ecological Agriculture and Social Ecology 29
9. Industry in the City: From Industrial Ghettos to Eco-Parks 50
10. Reworking Canadian Landscape and Urban Form through Responsive Urban Design: Healthy Housing and Other Lessons 67
11. Industrial Ecology and Environmental and Business Management
12. Cleaner Production and Eco-Efficiency: Charting a Course for Sustainability 97
13. From Clusters and Networks to Islands of Sustainability 114
14. From Advanced Eco-Efficiency to Systemic Sustainability: What Leading Companies Are Doing and What Assistance and Pressure They Need from Governments and Other Players 134
15. Mining, Minerals, and Sustainability 151
16. Between Beckett’s Trousers and Ecotopia: The Future of Industrial Ecology 176
17. Learning from Experience
18. Applied Industrial Ecology: Blue Box Recycling Lessons Learned and Implications for Canada's Greenhouse Gas Strategy 195
19. Clustering for Sustainability: The Alberta Experience 209
20. From Waste Management to Industrial Ecology 225
21. Conclusions
22. Opportunity or Illusion: The Vexed Promise of Industrial Ecology 245
23. Contributors 265
24. Index 269