Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Avant-propos -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. Concepts and ideas -- 1. Industrial ecology and material flow analysis. Basic concepts, policy relevance and some case studies -- 2. On the history of industrial metabolism -- 3. Technology, global change and industrial ecology -- 4. Industrial ecology. Philosophical and political meanings -- Part 2. Ideas in action -- 5. Industrial ecology and services to enterprises. Cell metabolism versus industrial metabolism -- 6. Physicochemical characterisation and recycling of industrial residues -- 7. The ecodesign process -- 8. Eco-industrial sites and networks -- 9. Metropolitan industrial ecosystem development -- 10. Towards a methodology for assessing effectiveness of recovery systems. A process system approach -- 11. Recycling of zinc-containing secondary products from the galvanising and steel industries. A new case of applied industrial ecology -- 12. The chemical industry from an industrial ecology perspective -- 13. Industrial ecology in motion. Enterprise integration -- 14. Electric power consumption and sustainable consumption -- 15. Industrial ecology and metallurgy -- 16. Industrial ecology and the oil industry -- 17. Industrial ecology and the glass industry -- 18. Applied industrial ecology and technology transposition. Steelmaking slag and dust co-products, and secondary slag metallurgy -- Part 3. Future challenges -- 19. The future of the industrial system -- 20. Obstacles and opportunities for a "green" industrial policy -- 21. A systems option for sustainable techno-metabolism. An ecological assessment of Japan's industrial technology system -- 22. The functional society. The service economy -- 23. Urban transportation and industrial ecology.

24. The adoption of cleaner production technology and the emergence of industrial ecology activity. Consequences for employment -- 25. The relevance of industrial ecology in developing countries -- 26. The impact of industrial ecology on university curricula -- 27. From ecology of natural systems to industrial ecology. The need for an extension of the scope of ecology -- 28. Perspectives on industrial ecology -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Biographies -- Index -- Back cover.