industrial ecology

collocation in English

meaningsofindustrialandecology

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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ecology
noun[U]
uk
/iˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/iˈkɑː.lə.dʒi/
the relationships between the air, land, water, animals, plants, etc., usually of a particular area, or the scientific study ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandecologyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Note that theindustrialecologyand environmental economics literature largely ignores interactive effects between regulation, business strategy, and environmental and economic outcomes.
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Moreover, "life cycle thinking" is also a very important principle inindustrialecology.
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Industrialecologyseeks to quantify the material flows and document the industrial processes that make modern society function.
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Environmental engineers administer pollution reduction, green engineering, andindustrialecology.
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Changes can be planned, agreed upon by many people, being very deliberate, as in urban ecology and especiallyindustrialecology.
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By including life cycle models through energy and materials flow, ecological design was related to the new interdisciplinary subject ofindustrialecology.
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Industrialecologymeant a conceptual tool emulating models derived from natural ecosystem and a frame work for conceptualizing environmental and technical issues.
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Industrialecologyis a young but growing multidisciplinary field of research which combines aspects of engineering, economics, sociology, toxicology and the natural sciences.
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Her current research addressesindustrialecology, business/environment issues, waste management, and environmental technology innovation.
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He is known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance onindustrialecologyand sustainability.
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Industrial symbiosis is a subset ofindustrialecology, with a particular focus on material and energy exchange.
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The process of improving the flow of energy, such that waste can be reused as input resources, is known asindustrialecology.
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Dematerialization is being encouraged through the ideas ofindustrialecology, ecodesign and ecolabelling.
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Industrialecologyhas been defined as a systems-based, multidisciplinary discourse that seeks to understand emergent behaviour of complex integrated human/natural systems.
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The course work is based on contemporary environmental management approaches (e.g. ecological modernization, ecological economics, andindustrialecology) with substantial (physical) economy dimensions.
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The field ofindustrialecologyis sometimes used in planning these cities.
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Exergy analysis is performed in the field ofindustrialecologyto use energy more efficiently.
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He has taught courses on environmental planning, conflict resolution,industrialecology, research methods and technical writing.
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Her work has been mentioned in the press to explain how concepts and scholarship related toindustrialecologyand industrial symbiosis is useful to businesses all over the globe.
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Duchin's recent work focuses onindustrialecology, continuing work she began in the early 1990s.
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