Towards industrial ecology: sustainable development as a concept of ecological modernization

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Adapting ecological modernisation to the Australian context

“…; see also Berger et al 2001). There are similarities between this version of EM, the idea of Natural Capitalism that emerged in the USA in the early 1990s (AtKisson 1999;Hawken et al 1999;Hargroves and Smith 2005), the subsequent ideas of Industrial Ecology and Bio-mimicry (Huber 2000), Al Gore's (1992) notion of a Global Marshal Plan, and more recently Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 (2008). The US literature, however, tends to focus more narrowly on the micro-level behaviour of individual firms and neglects the role of the state.…”

“…This includes promoting renewable energy and low emission technology, eliminating hazardous chemicals, substituting bio-fuels, etc. Such technological changes have to move beyond simple efficiency gains to make both production and consumption consistent with the functioning of ecosystems (Huber 2000). This focus on technology in the early incarnations of EM has been criticised for ignoring broader social and political issues (Berger et al 2001;Baker 2007) but the stronger versions of EM that developed later take up this point to some extent (Mol 1999).…”

“…EM is a label that has been attached to a broad school of thought that originally emerged from Europe (and Germany in particular) during the 1980s, most notably from the work of Martin Janicke and Joseph Huber, although some of its component ideas can be traced back as far as the late 1960s (Hajer 1995;Weale 1998;Mol and Sonnenfeld 2000;Mol and Spaargaren 2000;Huber 2000;Grant and Papadakis 2004;Janicke and Jacob 2004;Janicke 2008). Janicke (2008, p. 557) argues that EM was adopted by what he refers to as the 'Berlin School of environmental policy research' in the early 1980s.…”

Integrating a Triple Bottom-Line Approach into the Management System: A Framework for Institutions and Businesses Alike

“…Board level stakeholders may just need high-level information represented in a summary or forecast, and middle management, such as production managers, will want detailed schematics on day-to-day operations, within one or several departments. (Huber 2000) Application An early stage application of this method is seen in Laurier's Sustainability Action Plan. Laurier's Sustainability Action Plan provides a set of goals and related action items to achieve over a 5-year period, which are evaluated through milestones and related indicators and metrics.…”

“…Industrial ecology approaches issues of sustainability from multiple perspectives, predominantly through aspects of sociology, the environment, economy and technology, and uses the analogy of natural systems as an aid in understanding how to design sustainable industrial systems. (Allenby 2006;Huber 2000) When designing sustainable systems, material flow analysis is a natural approach within industrial ecology and systems thinking in order to gather the full spectrum of information necessary to manage an entire management system. With this information, the MFA approach provides the intermediary between the theory of industrial ecology and systems theory and application within an organization.…”