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Environment in Industrial Ecology, Grasping a Complex Notion for Enhancing Industrial Synergies at Territorial Scales

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  • François Dumoulin

    (CIRAD, UPR Recyclage et risque, F-97743 Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France
    ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency), French Environment and Energy Management Agency, Angers 49004, France
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Tom Wassenaar

    (CIRAD, UPR Recyclage et risque, F-97743 Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

Identifying the most relevant environment related indicators and how to make them available to decision-makers are current issues. Some seek to enhance their efficiency by means of methods such as aggregations or weighting. More fundamentally, in this chapter we question how industrial ecologists appropriate the notion of environment. On the basis of multidisciplinary research, we argue that, in contexts of geographically bounded networks of social actors forging industrial synergies, environmental questions should be posed from the viewpoint of the actors. Our work might aid to operationalize the complex notion of environment in such contexts, and constitutes a call to develop anthropocentric approaches to defining environmental indications followed by appropriated indicators.

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  • François Dumoulin & Tom Wassenaar, 2014. "Environment in Industrial Ecology, Grasping a Complex Notion for Enhancing Industrial Synergies at Territorial Scales," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(9), pages 1-11, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:6:y:2014:i:9:p:6267-6277:d:40166
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    1. Horst Siebert, 2008. "Economics of the Environment," Springer Books, Springer, edition 7, number 978-3-540-73707-0, December.
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