Closing Loops: A Workshop on Scale Issues in Implementing Industrial Ecology

9724931安德鲁斯PI的建议为少数高级工程师，社会和自然科学家，和从业人员讨论规模问题，在实施工业生态一天的研讨会。 该活动有三个重要目标：（1）在研究、商业和政策界之间建立更好的联系;（2）鼓励实施迄今为止所吸取的经验教训;（3）在这个年轻的交叉领域的一个角落确定未来研究的需求。 工业生态学不仅仅是一个强有力的比喻，它还提供了一种系统的方式来看待现代工业活动对环境的影响。 它强调了现代经济中各行为者之间的紧密联系，并突出了工业在决定总体环境负担方面的突出作用。 规范性愿景包括从简单、线性、一次性的工业生态系统转变为更有效的安排，这种安排重新使用大多数材料，只需要很少的外源投入来维持系统的运转。 这一愿景的内涵是工业的积极参与，以及旨在补充而不是取代市场力量的公共政策。 规模问题在以下几个方面变得很重要：（1）对提议的相对优点进行分类，例如，生态工业园区与废物交换战略;（2）经济和政治系统的边界不一致;以及（3）分析系统的动态-工业生态系统如何演变。 该项目包括四项任务：准备背景文件和议程，选择研讨会参与者，召开研讨会，并编写结果。 研究人员认为，研讨会作为一个长期的研究项目的范围在实施工业生态学的规模问题的阶段。 举办这次研讨会是及时的，原因有两个：从以前的研究中获得的关键经验教训现在已经准备好实施，这一新兴领域的未来研究需要优先考虑。 ***

9724931 Andrews The PI's propose a one day workshop for a small number of senior engineers, social and natural scientists, and practitioners to discuss scale issues in implementing industrial ecology. The event has three important goals: (1) build better linkages between the research, business, and policy communities; (2) encourage implementation of lessons learned to date; and (3) scope future research needs in one comer of this young, cross- cutting field. More than just a powerful metaphor, industrial ecology offers a systematic way of looking at the environmental impacts of modern industrial activity. It emphasizes the dense web of interconnections between actors in modern economies, and it highlights the prominent role of industry determining the overall environmental burden. The normative vision includes a transformation from a simple, linear, oncethrough industrial ecosystem to a more efficient arrangement which re-uses most materials and requires few exogenous inputs to keep the system going. Implicit in this vision is active participation of industry, and public policies designed to complement rather than substitute for market forces. Scale issues become important when (1) sorting out the relative merits of proposals for example, an eco-industrial park versus a waste exchange strategy; (2) the boundaries of economic and political systems are not coincident; and (3) analyzing the system's dynamics-how an industrial ecosystem evolves. This project includes four tasks: prepare a background paper and agenda, select workshop participants, convene the workshop, and write up the results. The investigators see the workshop as the scoping phase of a longer term research project on scale issues in implementing industrial ecology. It is timely to hold this workshop for two reasons: key lessons from previous research are now ready to be implemented, and future research in this burgeoning field needs to be prioritized. ***