Achieving Sustainable Development through Industrial Ecology

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Posted by iEcology | Posted in Industrial Ecology | Posted on 13-07

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Sustainable development has been a very wide topic that has been discussed a lot these days due to a lot of environmental issues. Industrial ecology in this sector offers a lot of new scope for study. In the sense, industrial ecology offers method that can assist corporations and organizations in sustainable operations.

Sustainable Development as defined by the Brundtland Commission is the economic and social development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising on the needs for the future generation. There were nonetheless other definitions given by other academicians too, although all of them have more or less the same idea of sustainable development resting on three main pillars.

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Industrial Ecology helping the Ecosystem

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Posted by iEcology | Posted in Industrial Ecology | Posted on 05-03

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Before understanding how industrial ecology is helping the ecosystem one must get clear about the concept of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The industry can be seen as an intercorrelated series of processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resources into commodities at humanity disposal. Industrial ecology wants to quantify these material flows and optimize the industrial processes in such a way to guarantee their environmental sustainability. Main topics are therefore how industrial activities impact on the environment in relation with planet’s supply of natural resources and waste disposal, and involve engineering, economics, sociology, toxicology and the natural sciences.

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Benefits of Ecological Planning

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Posted by iEcology | Posted in Industrial Ecology | Posted on 04-03

A modern business has to be both ecologically and environmentally conscious enough into become a cost effective firm. This will help to achieve sustainable consumption of natural resources. Before the establishment of the business the owner must try to make an ecological planning. The way of understanding the effect of various ecological processes and also the environment and find the solutions to integrate the best human habitation into particular areas accordingly is known as ecological planning. The main motto of ecological planning is to merge the natural environment with the human habitations.

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