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Industrial Ecology for a Sustainable Future Industrial Ecology for a Sustainable Future Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm 12 - 15 June 2005 Welcome to Stockholm and the 3rd International Conference Industrial Ecology for a Sustainable Future The ISIE-2005 conference highlights the contributions that industrial ecology can make towards attaining a sustainable future for the planet and its population. The conference provides a forum to introduce theoretical advances and to discuss practical experience, to learn about IE modelling and to explore the human dimensions of applying IE in corporate, public policy, and consumer decision making. The conference in Stockholm 2005 is a major event in the history of Industrial Ecology. There has been an overwhelming response to the ISIE-2005 conference, which will guarantee an event of very high interest. The ISIE Governing Council, Organizing Committee, and Technical Committee, thank you for joining us at the ISIE-2005 conference. The conference will take place in the Swedish capital, Stockholm - a city built on 14 islands. Well-preserved medieval buildings stand alongside modern architecture. Stockholm is a city of contrasts – land and sea, history and innovation, a small town and a big city, and long, light summer evenings in June. All this leaves the visitor with a wonderful variety of impressions. ISIE governing council Braden Allenby, President Marina Fischer-Kowalski, President-Elect Thomas Graedel, Immediate Past President John Ehrenfeld, Executive Director Mak Dehejia, Treasurer Kristan Cockerill, Secretary (University of New Mexico) Clinton Andrews (Rutgers University, USA) Suren Erkman (ICAST, Switzerland) Barbara Karn (EPA, USA) Rene Kleijn (Leiden University, Netherlands) Reid Lifset (Yale University, USA) Yuichi Moriguchi (NIES, Japan) Matthias Ruth (University of Maryland, USA) In addition to the elected council, the Society’s governing body includes: Treasurer - Mak Dehejia (Retired, USA) and Secretary - Kristan Cockerill (University of New Mexico, USA). Organising Committee Co chairs Ronald Wennersten, Division of Industrial Ecology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Matthias Ruth, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, MD, USA Technical committee Dr. Arpad Horvath, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA,USA Dr. Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Division of Industrial Ecology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Dr. Anthony S. F. Chiu, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines Dr. Jouni Korhonen, University of Tampere, Research Institute for Social Sciences, Finland Dr. Evans Kituyi, University of Nairobi & African Center for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya Dr. Maurie Cohen, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Dr. Arnold Tukker, TNO Strategy, Technology and Policy, Delft, the Netherlands Dr. Ralf Isenmann, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany Dr. Claudia Binder, Institute for Human-Environment Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Switzerland Dr. Edgar Hertwich, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Industrial Ecology Programme, Trondheim, Norway Dr. Stephen Levine, Tufts University , Medford, MA,USA Dr. Gregory Keoleian, Center for Sustainable Systems, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Dr. Ramesh Ramaswamy, Resource Optimization Initiative, Bangalore, India Dr. Brynhildur Davidsdottir, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Dr. Björn Frostell, Division of Industrial Ecology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Dr. René van Berkel, Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia ISIE Contact Information The International Society of Industrial Ecology c/o Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 205 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511-2189 | U.S.A. Phone: (203) 436-4835 Fax: (203) 432-5912 Email: [email protected] URL : http://www.is4ie.org/ Contents ORAL ● June 12. Technical session T1 1 ● Session A: IE in a Global Context 2 ● “Closing the Loop” on Industrial Waste: Spontaneous By-Product Recycling between Industries from the Victorian Era to Earth Day. 3 ● Industrial Ecology and Ecological Economics 4 ● Circular Economy: An Emerging Strategy Tool in China 7 ● A World Trade Model Based on Comparative Advantage with Bilateral Trade. 9 ● Global Cycles:Realizing Business Advantage from Industrial Ecology Initiatives in a Multinational Value Chain 10 ● Industrial Ecology as a working concept in a spatial and temporal “NIMBY” situation 11 ● The relation of Industrial Ecology versus natural ecosystems, and the fundamental principles for Industrial ecology in anthropogenic systems. 12 ● Industrial Ecology and Agro-Industrial Policy in Developing Countries 13 ● Session B: Sustainable Consumption 15 ● Consumption and Industrial Ecology: Critical Review and Prospects 16 ● Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges (SCORE!) 18 ● Influencing Corporate Behaviour through Consumer Networks. 19 ● New Approaches for Household Energy Conservation; In Search for Personal Household Energy Budgets and Ditto Reduction Options 22 ● Optimal Household Refrigerator Replacement Policy 25 ● Sustainable consumption – Australian case studies 27 ● Environmental Impacts of Consumer’s Time Use: Evaluating Alternative Consumption "Technologies by the Waste Input-Output Model 28 ● The Car Culture Wars: Lessons for Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Mobility from a Social Problems Perspective 30 ● Session C: Policy Cases 31 ● Emissions Trading and Industrial Ecology 32 ● Industrial and Environmental Policies in China 33 ● Corporate Synergy System – A Successful Experience of Greening Supply Chain in Taiwan 34 ● Using Life Cycle Assessment to Inform Nanotechnology Research and Development 36 ● How does Environmental Policy Integration Depend on Characteristics of Environmental Problems?Examples from two Swedish Sectors. 38 ● Individual Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Programmes- A Systematisation of the Understanding Based on the Analysis of Concrete Implementation Practices - 39 ● Efficiency Metaphors as Scientific Policy Instruments 42 ● Policy Instruments on Product Chains-What can be Leant from Battery Experiences? 43 ● Session D: Economics, Business Economics and Industrial Ecology 44 ● Eco-efficiency analysis. The finnish experience 45 ● Management and policy aspects of Industrial Ecology: an emerging research agenda 47 ● Decoupling trends of material flows, CO2 emissions and energy consumption in selected countries 48 ● Theory of industrial ecology 49 ● Where is Corporate Social Responsibility Actually Heading? 50 ● Theory of industrial ecology: The case of diversity 51 ● Session E. Eco-Industrial Parks and Networks 52 ● Do industrial ecosystems have lifecycles? 53 ● Industrial Ecology as a Management Concept for Chemical Industrial Parks 55 ● Research and decision support system of environmental evaluation of industrial symbiotic collaboration in Asian eco-industrial estates 58 ● Industrial Symbiosis Networks and Sustainability 60 ● Industrial Ecology in the Rotterdam Harbor and Industry Complex: You need acknowledgement, vision, trust, and a long term program to make it happen’ 62 ● Tees Valley Industrial Symbiosis Project: A Case Study on the Implementation of Industrial Symbiosis 64 ● Update on Industrial Symbiosis in the Kwinana Industrial Area 67 ● Eco-Industrial Development in China 70 ● June 13. Technical session T2 71 T2 AM ● Session A: Tools in IE 72 ● Can the Chinese Steel Industry Learn from Past US Experiences? A Comparative Dynamic MFA Perspective 73 ● Incorporating into a life cycle analysis of nutrient flows in agriculture. 74 ● Quantifying Material Flows in the US Economy, 75 ● Ecological Benchmarking on Company Level: Measuring the Ecological Efficiency of Sites or Companies 76 ● Integrating Waste Input-Output Analysis with MFA 79 ● A regional environmental impact modeling framework for Australia 81 ● Ecological Footprint Analysis as an Approach for Assessing Products’ Environmental Performance 82 ● Session B: IE Managementh/Operations Research 84 ● Life Cycle Assessment Optimization Model for Cogeneration Systems Applications in Commercial Buildings 85 ● Multi-Criteria Based Evaluation of Reverse Logistics Systems 88 ● Modelling Decision Making in Disaggregated Analyses of Industrial Networks 91 ● Environmental Management System in practice. Assisting Decision-makers to achieve performance 94 ● Resource Efficiency in the Context of Plant Layout Planning 96 ● System Dynamic Modelling within Sustainability Constraints 99 ● Variant Calculation in Material Flow Networks 101 ● Session C. Corporate Sustainability 102 ● Historical accountability and cumulative impacts: the treatment of time in corporate sustainability reporting 103 ● Triple Bottom Line Accounting for Australia 105 ● Production and Communication of Corporate Sustainability ReportsSoftware Tool for Single Source Cross Media and Multiple Requirement Sustainability Reporting 106 ● Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Sustainable Management Systems of Enterprises 109 ● Evaluating the Progress of Automakers Toward Sustainable Plastics 111 ● When Results Count; Applying Industrial Ecology to Leverage the Profitability, Stability and Reputation of Global Corporations 113 ● Session D. Sustainable Manufacturing 116 ● Measuring the Environmental Load of Manufacturing Processes 117
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