Commentary: regional environmental management systems: lessons and challenges for industrial ecology research
Commentary: regional environmental management systems: lessons and challenges for industrial ecology research
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评论：区域环境管理体系：工业生态学研究的教训和挑战
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10.1504/pie.2004.004683
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2004
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R. Welford
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R. Welford
在过去的十年中，工业生态学为企业环境管理的工具做出了重大贡献。然而，有人认为，这种贡献大部分是在产品和个别公司一级。有人认为，如果工业生态概念的发展要吸引公共政策的注意，那么它就必须在部门和区域一级显示出更大的好处。区域环境管理系统（REMS）是工业生态学的种子之一，被认为是推动工业生态学方法更广泛的一种方式。正如REMS喜欢采用与业务相关的工具来管理一个地区一样，工业生态学在某种程度上也是一种隐喻，即企业以一种更加相互关联的区域方式行事。因此，这两个概念之间有很大的协同作用。事实上，如果企业能够从工业生态学的角度出发，就可以大大加强对工业发展的可再生能源管理办法。因此，本文探讨了生态现代化理论的背景下，这两种方法之间的协同作用，并提出了一个框架，为他们的进一步发展并行。这反过来又提出了需要进一步研究的问题，希望这些问题能在这本新杂志的未来页面中得到反映。
Industrial ecology has made a major contribution to the tools of corporate environmental management over the last ten years. However, it is argued that most of that contribution has been at the level of products and individual firms. It is argued that if the concept of industrial ecology is to be developed in a way that attracts public policy attention then it will have to demonstrate greater benefits at the sectoral and regional levels. One of the seeds of industrial ecology, the regional environmental management system (REMS), is advocated as a way to push industrial ecology approaches more broadly. Just as REMS likes to adopt a business-related tool to manage a region, so Industrial Ecology is, in part, a metaphor for businesses acting in a more interlinked regional way. There is therefore a great deal of synergy between these two concepts. Indeed, a REMS approach to industrial development can be much enhanced if businesses are able to take on an industrial ecology perspective. This paper therefore examines the synergies between the two approaches in the context of ecological modernisation theory and suggests a framework for the further development of them in parallel. This in turn raises issues that require further research that will hopefully be reflected in future pages of this new journal.