Industrial Ecology: Material and Energy Flows, Life Cycle Analysis

Shmelev, Stanislav E.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1972-9_2

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“…Its key feature lies in the integration of various components of a system to reduce its net resource input as well as pollutant and waste outputs. Shmelev (2012) introduced the conceptual foundations of industrial ecology, an interdisciplinary field that draws parallels between the natural life processes of organisms, their use of energy and resources and the interactions between them and the world of enterprises that also interact, use energy and resources and differ from natural entities in peculiar ways. IE aims to inform decision-making about the environmental impacts of industrial production processes by tracking and analyzing resource use and flows of industrial products, consumer products, and wastes.…”

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Environmental modelling and spatial landscape analysis for the contamination risk assessment of sensitive areas

Abdelaal¹,

Szilassi²,

Jordán³

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Section: Industrial Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental modelling and spatial landscape analysis for the contamination risk assessment of sensitive areas

Abdelaal¹,

Szilassi²,

Jordán³

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An MMT Perspective on How Agenda 30 Could Be Implemented in Australia

Juniper

2022

Community Empowerment, Sustainable Cities, and Transformative Economies

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Decision support methods for the environmental assessment of contamination at mining sites

Jordán

Abdaal

2013

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Polluting mine accidents and widespread environmental contamination associated with historic mining in Europe and elsewhere has triggered the improvement of related environmental legislation and of the environmental assessment and management methods for the mining industry. Mining has some unique features such as natural background pollution associated with natural mineral deposits, industrial activities and contamination located in the three-dimensional sub-surface space, the problem of long-term remediation after mine closure, problem of secondary contaminated areas around mine sites and abandoned mines in historic regions like Europe. These mining-specific problems require special tools to address the complexity of the environmental problems of mining-related contamination. The objective of this paper is to review and evaluate some of the decision support methods that have been developed and applied to mining contamination. In this paper, only those methods that are both efficient decision support tools and provide a 'holistic' approach to the complex problem as well are considered. These tools are (1) landscape ecology, (2) industrial ecology, (3) landscape geochemistry, (4) geo-environmental models, (5) environmental impact assessment, (6) environmental risk assessment, (7) material flow analysis and (8) life cycle assessment. This unique inter-disciplinary study should enable both the researcher and the practitioner to obtain broad view on the state-of-the-art of decision support methods for the environmental assessment of contamination at mine sites. Documented examples and abundant references are also provided.

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Industrial Ecology: Material and Energy Flows, Life Cycle Analysis

Cited by 4 publications

References 66 publications

Environmental modelling and spatial landscape analysis for the contamination risk assessment of sensitive areas

Environmental modelling and spatial landscape analysis for the contamination risk assessment of sensitive areas

An MMT Perspective on How Agenda 30 Could Be Implemented in Australia

Decision support methods for the environmental assessment of contamination at mining sites

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