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Summary
Summary
Studies that integrate scientific, technological, and economic dimensions of industrial ecology and material flows.
The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with a rigorous economic approach and by doing so contribute to the advancement of this emerging field. Using a variety of modeling techniques (including econometric, partial and general equilibrium, and input-output models) and applying them to a wide range of materials, economic sectors, and countries, these studies analyze the driving forces behind material flows and structural changes in order to offer guidance for economically and socially feasible policy solutions.
After a survey of concepts and relevant research that provides a useful background for the chapters that follow, the book presents historical analyses of structural change from statistical and decomposition approaches; a range of models that predict structural change on the national and regional scale under different policy scenarios; two models that can be used to analyze waste management and recycling operations; and, adopting the perspective of local scale, an analysis of the dynamics of eco-industrial parks in Denmark and the Netherlands. The book concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of an economic approach to industrial ecology.
Author Notes
Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh is Professor of Environmental Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Professor of Nature, Water, and Space in the Institute of Environmental Studies at Free University, Amsterdam.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. vii |
I Background | |
1 Introduction and Overview | p. 3 |
2 The Interface between Economics and Industrial Ecology: A Survey | p. 13 |
II Historical Analysis of Structural Change | |
3 Is the US Economy Dematerializing? Main Indicators and Drivers | p. 57 |
4 Structural Decomposition Analysis of Iron and Steel and of Plastics | p. 95 |
III Projective Analysis of Structural Change | |
5 Dynamic Industrial Systems Analysis for Policy Assessment | p. 125 |
6 Modeling Physical Realities at the Whole Economy Scale | p. 165 |
7 Environmental Policy Analysis with STREAM: A Partial Equilibrium Model for Material Flows in the Economy | p. 195 |
8 DIMITRI: A Model for the Study of Policy Issues in Relation to the Economy, Technology, and the Environment | p. 223 |
IV Waste Management and Recycling | |
9 Modeling Market Distortions in an Applied General Equilibrium Framework: The Case of Flat-Fee Pricing in the Waste Market | p. 255 |
10 International Trade, Recycling, and the Environment | p. 287 |
V Dynamics of Eco-Industrial Parks | |
11 Understanding the Evolution of Industrial Symbiotic Networks: The Case of Kalundborg | p. 313 |
12 The Myth of Kalundborg: Social Dilemmas in Stimulating Eco-Industrial Parks | p. 337 |
VI Conclusions | |
13 Policy Implications: Toward a Materials Policy? | p. 359 |
Contributors | p. 377 |
Index | p. 381 |