Industrial ecology (IE) is a rapidly growing scienti?c discipline that is concerned with the sustainability of industrial systems under explicit consideration of its int- dependence with natural systems. In recent years, there has been an ever-increasing awareness about the applicability of Input-Output Analysis (IOA) to IE, in particular to LCA (life cycle assessment) and MFA (material ?ow analysis). This is witnessed in the growing number of papers at ISIE (International Society for Industrial Ec- ogy) conferences, which use IOA, and also by the installment of subject editors on IOA in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. It can be said that IE has become a major ?eld of application for IOA. The broadening of users of IOA from various backgrounds implies a need for a self-contained textbook on IOA that can meet the needs of students and practitioners without compromising on basic c- cepts and the latest developments. This book was written with the aim of ?lling this need, and is primarily addressed to students and practitioners of IE. As the title suggests, the core contents of the book have grown out of our research in IOA of waste management issues over the last decade. We have been fascinated by the versatile nature of IOA with regard to various technical issues of waste m- agement in particular, and to IE in general. For us (both economists by training), IOA has turned out to be extremely useful in establishing productive communi- tion with scientists and engineers interested in IE.

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ecology
environment
industrial ecology
input-output analysis
life cycle assessment
life-cycle assessment
pollution
recycling of waste
waste management

• Front Matter
• Input-Output Analysis
  Introduction
• Basics of Input-Output Analysis
• Extensions of IOA
• Microeconomic Foundations
• Waste Input-Output Analysis
  Basics of WIO
• WIO Analysis
• Application of WIO to Industrial Ecology
• Back Matter

Graduate School of Economics Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Shinichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Kondo

Book Title
Waste Input-Output Analysis

Book Subtitle
Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology

Editors
Shinichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Kondo

Series Title
Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9902-1

Hardcover ISBN
978-1-4020-9901-4
Published: 18 February 2009

Softcover ISBN
978-90-481-8220-6
Published: 28 October 2010

eBook ISBN
978-1-4020-9902-1
Published: 08 February 2009

Series ISSN
1389-6970

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XVIII, 294

Topics
Methodology of the Social Sciences, Operations Management, Pollution, general, Environment, general, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Environmental Economics