Industrial Ecology: The role of manufactured capital in sustainability

In 1992 PNAS presented a Special Feature with 22 contributions from a colloquium entitled “Industrial Ecology,” held at the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in Washington, DC (1). In these articles Industrial Ecology was presented as an approach to understand and ultimately optimize the total material cycles of industrial processes (2).

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