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Changing Stocks, Flows And Behaviors In Industrial Ecosystems

Edited by Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, University of Maryland, US, Director, Center for Integrative Environmental Research, and Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy Program. He is also Visiting Member of the Faculty, Center for Sustainability, University of Bremen, Germany and Brynhildur Davidsdottir, Associate Professor of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Iceland, Reykjavik and Director, Graduate Program in Environment and Natural Resources
Contents:

Foreword
John R. Ehrenfeld

PART I: BACKGROUND AND CONCEPTS
1. Background and Concepts: An Introduction
Matthias Ruth and Brynhildur Davidsdottir

2. Beyond a Sack of Resources: Nature as a Model – the Core Features of Industrial Ecology
Ralf Isenmann, Christoph Bey and Martina Keitsch

PART II: STOCKS AND FLOWS DYNAMICS
3. Stocks and Flows Dynamics: An Introduction
Thomas E. Graedel

4. Dynamic Modeling of Material Stocks: A Case Study of In-Use Cement Stocks in the United States
Amit Kapur and Gregory A. Keoleian

5. The Economic Dynamics of Stocks and Flows
Brynhildur Davidsdottir and Matthias Ruth

PART III: AGENT-BASED ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
6. Agent-Based Analysis of Dynamic Industrial Ecosystems: An
Introduction
Marco A. Janssen

7. Changing a Firm’s Environmental Performance from Within
Clinton J. Andrews

8. Managing Energy Futures and Greenhouse Gas Emissions with the Help of Agent-Based Simulation
David F. Batten and George V. Grozev

9. Organizational Dynamics in Industrial Ecosystems: Insights from
Organizational Theory
Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Raymond Paquin

10. Changing Stocks, Flows and Behaviors in Industrial Ecosystems: Retrospect and Prospect
Brynhildur Davidsdottir and Matthias Ruth

Index
2009 168 pp Hardback 978 1 84720 740 1 $ 100.00 on-line discount $ 90.00
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