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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Jonathan M. Harris, Tufts University
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Chapter 17: Industrial Ecology
- What are the basic principles of industrial ecology?
- What is the difference between a "straight-line" and circular process?
- What are dematerialization, materials substitution, and waste mining?
- How can growth in GDP be decoupled from growth in material inputs?
- What are some ways to make agricultural systems compatible with natural ecosystems?
- How has the global demand for materials changed over the past few decades?
- How are gains in material efficiency offset by other factors?
- What is the relationship between the intensity of materials use and the IPAT equation?
- What is the concept of "sufficiency"?
- What are some policies that could be used to promote industrial ecology?
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