Industrial symbiosis for more sustainable, localised industrial systems

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 184-204

  Ristola, Petri ^a,c   Mirata, Murat ^b,d  

^a METSO PAPER INC   (Finland)

^b Learning Labs for Distributed Economies   (Sweden)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d DeLabs Foundation

Author keywords

DE; Distributed economies; Industrial symbiosis; IS; Localisation; Pulp and paper industry; Recycling; Regional sustainability; Small scale production systems

Indexed keywords

POWER GENERATION; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36048935292     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2007.015186     Document Type: Article

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