Industrial Ecology And Sustainability: A Textbook For Students

Book info: Industrial Ecology And Sustainability: A Textbook For Students (Hardcover, 240 pages) – WSPC, 2025. Language: English.

The field of industrial ecology is evolving rapidly, and its tools and foundational concepts underpin many areas of sustainability in business and policy. Industrial ecology provides a systemic understanding of material and energy flows that is vital as limits in materials availability, limited recycling, increased demand for the quantification of environmental impact, and concern about future sustainability rise rapidly. This volume focuses on core topics of industrial ecology and is designed as an accessible introduction for students around the world studying sustainability at a time of rapid changes in technology and the environment. Written by world-renowned experts, the book is suitable for students and professionals interested in the field. Editorial Reviews About the Author Thomas E Graedel joined Yale University in 1997 after 27 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is currently a Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist at Yale. One of the founders of the field of industrial ecology, he co-authored the first textbook in that specialty and has published extensively and lectured widely on industrial ecology's implementation and implications. His characterizations of the cycles of industrially-used metals have explored aspects of resource availability, potential environmental impacts, opportunities for recycling and reuse, materials criticality, and resources policy. He was the inaugural President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology from 2002–2004 and winner of the ISIE Society Prize for excellence in industrial ecology research in 2007. He has served three terms on the United Nations International Resource Panel, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Matthew J Eckelman is an Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. His research laboratory builds processed-based emissions models and life cycle sustainability assessment tools. He has served as a Board Member and Treasurer of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and received the Laudise Medal for research in industrial ecology in 2013. For the past 15 years, he has also served as CTO of the green engineering firm Sustainability A to Z, LLC, (currently based in Connecticut, USA) providing environmental consulting services to Fortune 500 companies, industry associations, and public agencies. He is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and the National Academy of Medicine Decarbonization Action Collaborative. Dr Eckelman worked previously for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and received a PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University in 2010.