Urban Mining's Potential to Relieve China's Coming Resource Crisis

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1091-1102

  Wen, Zongguo ^a   Zhang, Chenkai ^a   Ji, Xiaoli ^b   Xue, Yanyan ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Lishui Vocational and Technical College   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Industrial ecology; Life cycle; Metals; Recycling; Stock analysis; Urban mining

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; LEAD; LIFE CYCLE; METALS; MINERAL RESOURCES; RECYCLING;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; STOCK ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC RESOURCE; SUBSTITUTION RATES;

METAL ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MINERAL RESOURCE; MINING INDUSTRY; RECYCLING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

CHINA;

EID: 84951567503     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12271     Document Type: Article

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