Abstract: Industrial ecology and urban ecology are distinct disciplines with different professional
communities, but they share many common concepts and approaches. This chapter explores
the ways industrial and urban systems and the science relating to them interact, through
reviewing the history and main areas of research within each discipline, common and distinctive
approaches, cross contributions, and emerging frontiers. Material and energy flow analysis,
which is a common approach in both industrial and urban ecology, is used as an example
to articulate linkages between the disciplines. While they have different starting points and
remain as separate disciplines, there is also a merging and coevolving trend in research scope
and methodology in urban ecology and industrial ecology, with industrial ecology extending its
scope to include literature dealing with social and management dimensions, and an increasing
volume of literature addressing production and consumption subsystems within cities appearing
in urban ecology.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-12-21
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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