Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

Introduction.- General reflections.- The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: sustainability 'after the crisis'.- Impacts of global trade flows.- Stocks and flows in the performance economy.- The Embeddedness of carbon in UK Lifestyles.- Ethics of Industrial Ecology.- Complexity and prediction.- Urban metabolism.- Industrial Symbiosis.- Industrial Ecology and the Solidarity Economy.- Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries.- Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management.- Social sciences in Industrial Ecology.- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment.- Prospective Models of Society's Future Metabolism.- Planetary boundaries and sustainable business.- Working with policymakers.- Portugal's national waste plan.- The Industrial Ecology of the automobile.