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Table of Contents
Intro
Foreword
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Industrial Ecology
1.2 Roots of IE
1.2.1 Industrial Ecosystems: An Open Subset of Planetary Ecosystems
1.2.2 A Visual Representation of the Basic-Economy-Environment Account
1.3 Methods of IE
1.3.1 IO as a Basic Methodological Framework Encompassing the Major Methods of IE, LCA, and MFA
1.4 Outline of This Book
1.5 How to Use This Book
References
2 Processes and Elemental Flows
2.1 Process: The Fundamental Concept of IE
2.1.1 Unit Process: Theory and Practice
2.1.2 Elementary Flows: Another Theoretical Construct
2.1.3 Mass Balances: A Fundamental Feature of a Process
2.1.4 Constant Returns-to-Scale: A Fundamental Assumption About a Process
2.2 Examples of Processes
2.2.1 Crop Production Processes
2.2.2 The Haber-Bosch Process of NH3 Production
2.2.3 Animal Production Processes
2.2.4 Metals and Cement
2.3 A Process Representation of Food Consumption
2.3.1 We Are What We Eat
2.3.2 C and N Flows in Human Metabolic Processes: Their Origins, and Fate
2.4 A Schematic Representation of Global C, N, P, and S Cycles
2.4.1 The Global Flows of C and S
2.4.2 The Global Flow of N
2.4.3 The Global Flow of P
2.4.4 The Need to Define a New Geological Epoch Dominated by Humans?
2.5 Input-Output Analysis (IO) and Processes
2.6 Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming
2.6.1 What if There Were No GHGs on Earth?
2.6.2 Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
2.6.3 How Do the Greenhouse Effects Work?
2.6.4 Global Warming Potentials (GWP)
References
3 The IO Model of a Simple Economy Without Fossil Fuel
3.1 The One-Sector IO Model
3.1.1 The Basics
3.1.2 *Human Labor as the Power Source and Its Energy Requirements
3.1.3 Environmental Extensions
3.2 The Two-Sector IO Model: Exposition Without Matrices
3.2.1 The Balance Between the Supply and Demand of Products
3.2.2 The Two-Sector IO Model with Numerical Examples
3.3 The IO Model Based on Matrices
3.3.1 The Analogy Between the Scalar-Based One-Sector Model and the Matrix-Based Two-Sector Model
3.3.2 The Leontief Quantity Model
3.3.3 Human Labor as a Power Source and Its Energy Requirements
3.3.4 Cost and Price
3.4 The Two-Sector IO Model: Environmental Extensions
3.4.1 GHG Emissions
3.4.2 Land Footprint
3.4.3 Waste Generation and Recycling: A Two-Sector WIO
References
4 Standard Input-Output: Single and Multi-regional Models
4.1 From Processes in Physical Units to IO Tables in Monetary Units
4.1.1 Industry and Its Product
4.1.2 The Commodity-by-Industry Approach
4.1.3 Transport and Trade
4.1.4 By-Products and Waste
4.2 Physical Versus Monetary Units
4.2.1 Basic, Producer and Consumer Prices
4.2.2 Transport- and Trade Services in Value Terms
Foreword
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Industrial Ecology
1.2 Roots of IE
1.2.1 Industrial Ecosystems: An Open Subset of Planetary Ecosystems
1.2.2 A Visual Representation of the Basic-Economy-Environment Account
1.3 Methods of IE
1.3.1 IO as a Basic Methodological Framework Encompassing the Major Methods of IE, LCA, and MFA
1.4 Outline of This Book
1.5 How to Use This Book
References
2 Processes and Elemental Flows
2.1 Process: The Fundamental Concept of IE
2.1.1 Unit Process: Theory and Practice
2.1.2 Elementary Flows: Another Theoretical Construct
2.1.3 Mass Balances: A Fundamental Feature of a Process
2.1.4 Constant Returns-to-Scale: A Fundamental Assumption About a Process
2.2 Examples of Processes
2.2.1 Crop Production Processes
2.2.2 The Haber-Bosch Process of NH3 Production
2.2.3 Animal Production Processes
2.2.4 Metals and Cement
2.3 A Process Representation of Food Consumption
2.3.1 We Are What We Eat
2.3.2 C and N Flows in Human Metabolic Processes: Their Origins, and Fate
2.4 A Schematic Representation of Global C, N, P, and S Cycles
2.4.1 The Global Flows of C and S
2.4.2 The Global Flow of N
2.4.3 The Global Flow of P
2.4.4 The Need to Define a New Geological Epoch Dominated by Humans?
2.5 Input-Output Analysis (IO) and Processes
2.6 Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming
2.6.1 What if There Were No GHGs on Earth?
2.6.2 Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
2.6.3 How Do the Greenhouse Effects Work?
2.6.4 Global Warming Potentials (GWP)
References
3 The IO Model of a Simple Economy Without Fossil Fuel
3.1 The One-Sector IO Model
3.1.1 The Basics
3.1.2 *Human Labor as the Power Source and Its Energy Requirements
3.1.3 Environmental Extensions
3.2 The Two-Sector IO Model: Exposition Without Matrices
3.2.1 The Balance Between the Supply and Demand of Products
3.2.2 The Two-Sector IO Model with Numerical Examples
3.3 The IO Model Based on Matrices
3.3.1 The Analogy Between the Scalar-Based One-Sector Model and the Matrix-Based Two-Sector Model
3.3.2 The Leontief Quantity Model
3.3.3 Human Labor as a Power Source and Its Energy Requirements
3.3.4 Cost and Price
3.4 The Two-Sector IO Model: Environmental Extensions
3.4.1 GHG Emissions
3.4.2 Land Footprint
3.4.3 Waste Generation and Recycling: A Two-Sector WIO
References
4 Standard Input-Output: Single and Multi-regional Models
4.1 From Processes in Physical Units to IO Tables in Monetary Units
4.1.1 Industry and Its Product
4.1.2 The Commodity-by-Industry Approach
4.1.3 Transport and Trade
4.1.4 By-Products and Waste
4.2 Physical Versus Monetary Units
4.2.1 Basic, Producer and Consumer Prices
4.2.2 Transport- and Trade Services in Value Terms