2. Industrial ecology: framework for
production and process design
”Industrial ecology is a new system for describing and
designing sustainable economies.Arising out of an
ecological metaphor, it offers guidelines to designers
of products and the institutional structures in which
production and consumption occur, as well as frameworks
for the analysis of complex material and energy flows
across economies.”
John R. Ehrenfeld; MIT Program onTechnology,
Business, and Environment, Cambridge, MA, USA 1998