Waste Input-Output Analysis: Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology

Industrial ecology (IE) is a rapidly growing scientific discipline that is concerned with the sustainability of industrial systems under explicit consideration of its int- dependence with natural systems. In recent years, there has been an ever-increasing awareness about the applicability of Input-Output Analysis (IOA) to IE, in particular to LCA (life cycle assessment) and MFA (material flow analysis). This is witnessed in the growing number of papers at ISIE (International Society for Ind...