History's lessons: A Critical assessment of the desrochers papers

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-158

  Boons, Frank ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business history; Free market; Historiography; Industrial ecology; Industrial waste; Recycling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SALVAGING;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (R ,S ,S) POLICY; 19TH CENTURY; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY (IE); INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; MARKET MECHANISMS; POLITICAL FACTORS; WASTE RECOVERIES; YALE UNIVERSITY;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 45849144041     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2008.00018.x     Document Type: Review

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