Industrial Ecology

University researcher Satu Ojala

Contents: Material and energy flows in economic systems and their environmental impacts. Physical, biological and societal framework of industrial ecology. Industrial metabolism, corporate industrial ecology, eco-efficiency, dematerialization, decarbonization. Tools of industrial ecology, such as life-cycle assessment, design for the environment, green chemistry and engineering. Systems-level industrial ecology, industrial symbioses, eco-industrial parks.

Literature: Lecture notes; Graedel T.E & Allenby B.R.: Industrial Ecology. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.