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Thoughts on industrial ecology, emerging technologies, and sustainability science

Thoughts on industrial ecology, emerging technologies, and sustainability science Sustain Sci (2011) 6:119–122 DOI 10.1007/s11625-011-0134-4 MESSAGE Thoughts on industrial ecology, emerging technologies, and sustainability science Brad Allenby Received: 25 April 2011 / Accepted: 25 April 2011 / Published online: 18 May 2011 Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, United Nations University, and Springer 2011 subsequently, sustainability) advocacy? Obviously, such questions have important methodological implications: should an IE study use the sort of quantitative, structured methods characteristic of engineering or scientific investi- gation, or should it rely on the more qualitative, even emotional, forms of analysis characteristic of the social sciences and environmental activism? They also have important social and community dimensions: who should be allowed to be part of the IE community, and consider themselves an industrial ecologist—and, therefore, get to publish in the journals, and attend the conferences, and use the academic infrastructures, and the employment and funding networks, which IE was building? These questions, decades old, still remain difficult for many in IE. These sorts of concerns also swirl around sustainability For anyone with an interest in social science, the evolution science, where they are, perhaps, even more vexed. Par- of the field of industrial ecology (IE) was fascinating not tially, this is because IE still http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sustainability Science Springer Journals

Thoughts on industrial ecology, emerging technologies, and sustainability science

Allenby, Brad
Sustainability Science , Volume 6 (2) – May 18, 2011
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2011 by Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, United Nations University, and Springer
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Environment; Environmental Management; Climate Change Management and Policy; Environmental Economics; Landscape Ecology; Sustainable Development; Public Health
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1862-4065
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10.1007/s11625-011-0134-4
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Sustain Sci (2011) 6:119–122 DOI 10.1007/s11625-011-0134-4 MESSAGE Thoughts on industrial ecology, emerging technologies, and sustainability science Brad Allenby Received: 25 April 2011 / Accepted: 25 April 2011 / Published online: 18 May 2011 Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, United Nations University, and Springer 2011 subsequently, sustainability) advocacy? Obviously, such questions have important methodological implications: should an IE study use the sort of quantitative, structured methods characteristic of engineering or scientific investi- gation, or should it rely on the more qualitative, even emotional, forms of analysis characteristic of the social sciences and environmental activism? They also have important social and community dimensions: who should be allowed to be part of the IE community, and consider themselves an industrial ecologist—and, therefore, get to publish in the journals, and attend the conferences, and use the academic infrastructures, and the employment and funding networks, which IE was building? These questions, decades old, still remain difficult for many in IE. These sorts of concerns also swirl around sustainability For anyone with an interest in social science, the evolution science, where they are, perhaps, even more vexed. Par- of the field of industrial ecology (IE) was fascinating not tially, this is because IE still

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