Comparing Products and Production in Ecological and Industrial Systems

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 33-42

  Levine, Stephen H ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological analogy; Comparative systems analysis; Ecological analogy; Ecosystem modeling; Metaphor; Value added

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY (IE);

ECOLOGY;

EID: 0345447221     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/108819803322564334     Document Type: Review

References (54)

1. Ayres, R. U. 1989. Industrial metabolism. In Technology and environment, edited by J. Ausubel and H. Sladovich. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
2. Ayres, R. U. and L W. Ayres. 1996. Industrial ecology. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
3. Barnes, R. D. 1987. Invertebrate zoology. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing.
4. Beachley, N. H. and H. L. Harrrison. 1978. Introduction to dynamic systems analysis. New York: Harper and Row.
5. Benyus, J. M. 1997. Biomimicry. New York: William Morrow and Company.
6. Commoner, B. 1997. The relation between industrial and ecological systems. Journal of Cleaner Production 5(1/2): 125-129.
7. Curtis, H. 1968. Biology. New York: Worth Publishers.
8. Desrochers, P. 2000. Market processes and the closing of "industrial loops." Journal of Industrial Ecology 4(1): 29-43.
9. Duchin, F. 1992. Industrial input-output analysis: Implications for industrial ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 89: 851-855.
10. Ehrenfeld, J., 2003. Putting a spotlight on metaphors and analogies in industrial ecology. Journal of Industrial Ecology 7(1): 1-4.
11. Ehrenfeld, J. and N. Gertler. 1997. Industrial ecology in practice: The evolution of interdependence at Kalundborg. Journal of Industrial Ecology 1(1): 67-79.
12. Eiseley, L. 1957. The Immense Journey. New York: Vintage Books.
13. Finn, J. T. 1976. Measures of ecosystem structure and function derived from the analysis of flows. Journal of Theoretical Biology 56: 363-380.
14. Fischer-Kowalski, M. 1998. Society's metabolism: The intellectual history of materials flow analysis, part I: 1860-1970. Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(1): 61-78.
15. Fischer-Kowalski, M. and W. Hüttler. 1998. Society's metabolism: The intellectual history of materials flow analysis, part II: 1970-1998. Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(4): 107-136.
16. Foster, J. 1997. The analytical foundations of evolutionary economics: From biological analogy to economic self-organization. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 8: 427-451.
17. Gould, S. J. 1981. The mismeasure of man. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
18. Gowdy, J. 1997. Introduction: Biology and economics. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 8: 377-383.
19. Graedel, T. E. 1994. Industrial ecology: Definition and implementation. In Industrial ecology and global change, edited by R. Socolow, C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas. New York: Cambridge University Press.
20. Graedel, T. E. and B. R. Allenby. 1995. Industrial ecology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
21. Haberman, R. 1977. Mathematical models. Englewood Cliffe, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
22. Hale, D., G. Lady, J. Maybee, and J. Quirk. 1999. Non-parametric comparative statics and stability. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
23. Hannon, B. 1973. The structure of ecosystems. Journal of Theoretical Biology 41: 535-546.
24. Hannon, B. 1976. Marginal product pricing in the ecosystem. Journal of Theoretical Biology 56: 253-267.
25. Hannon, B. 1997. The use of analogy in biology and economics: From biology to economics, and back. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 8: 471-488.
26. Hawken, P. 1993. The ecology of commerce. New York: Harper Business.
27. Hawken, P., A. Lovins, and L. H. Lovins. 1999. Natural capitalism. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
28. Hodgson, G. M. 1997. Economics and the return to Mecca: The recognition of novelty and emergence. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 8: 399-412.
29. Industrial Economics, Inc. 1998. Applying decision support tools for eco-industrial park planning: A case study in Burlington, Vermont. Cambridge, MA: Industrial economics.
30. Infinity Initiative. 2003. 〈www.powerbond.com/ env_commit/recycle. htm〉. Accessed June 2003.
31. Isenmann, R. 2002. Further efforts to clarify industrial ecology's hidden philosophy of nature. Journal of Industrial Ecology 6(3/4): 27-48.
32. Kay, J. 1991. A nonequilibrium thermodynamlc framework for discussing ecosystem integrity. Environmental Management 15(4): 483-495.
33. Koenig, H. E. and J. E. Cantlon. 1998. Quantitative industrial ecology. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 28(1): 16-28.
34. Leontief, W. W. 1965. The structure of the U.S. economy. Scientific American 212: 25-35.
35. Levine, S. H. 2000. Products and ecological models. Journal of Industrial Ecology 3(2): 47-62.
36. Lifset, R. 1997. A metaphor, a field, and a journal. Journal of Industrial Ecology 1(1): 1-3.
37. May, R. M. 1973. Stability and complexity in model ecosystems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. McNeill, W. H. 1987. A history of the human community, Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffe, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
39. Metaphor and Simile. 2003. 〈http://mattressemporium .com/metaphor.htm〉. Accessed April 2003.
40. Mirowski, P., ed. 1994. Natural images in economic thought: "Markets read in tooth and claw." New York: Cambridge University Press.
41. Odum, E. P. 1953. Fundamentals of ecology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.
42. Olinick, M. 1978. An introduction to mathematical models in the social and life sciences. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
43. O'Neill, R. V. 2001. Is it time to bury the ecosystem concept? (With full military honors, of course!). Ecology 82(12): 3275-3284.
44. Patten, B. C. and J. T. Finn. 1979. Systems approach to continental shelf ecosystems. In Theoretical systems ecology, edited by E. Halfon. New York: Academic Press.
45. Phythian, B. A., ed. 1970. Considering poetry: An opproach to criticism. London: Hodder.
46. Quirk, J. P. and R. Ruppert. 1965. Qualitative economics and the stability of equilibrium. Review of Economic Studies 32: 311-326.
47. Rapport, D. J. and J. E. Turner. 1977. Economic models in ecology. Science 195: 367-373.
48. Ricklefs, R. E. 1973. Ecology. Newton, MA: Chiron Press.
49. Schneider, E. and J. Kay. 1994. Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 19(6-8): 25-48.
50. St. Aimee, P. J. 1994. A life cycle overview of carpet: From "cradle to grave" and beyond. Master's thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
51. Swan, C., D. Brown, S. Levine, and J. Zabel. 1999. Optimization and economic evaluation of coal fly ash reuse in new synthetic lightweight aggregates. Proceedings of the International Ash Utilization Symposium. On CD-ROM.
52. Turner, W. C., J. H. Mize, and K. E. Case. 1987. Introduction to industrial and systems engineering. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
53. Wald, M. L. 1991. A company is finding the good in pollution. New York Times, 9 January 1991, D7.
54. Yan, C.-S. 1969. Introduction to input-output economics. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.