Industrial Ecology and Industry Symbiosis for Environmental Sustainability

Xiaohong Li is a senior lecturer in operations management and business modelling at the Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Prior to this, she worked as a research fellow after completing her PhD in 2000. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the International Journal of Production Research, Strategic Outsourcing: an International Journal, and the Journal of Construction Management and Economics. Her current research focuses on environmental sustainability, particularly IE and IS.

Chapter 1 explores the definitions and development histories of Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis and emphasises their integrated relationship in contributing to the development of environmental sustainability.

Chapter 2 gives an overview of environmental sustainability and its important position in achieving sustainability. Chapter 2 also explores environmental sustainability approaches including Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis.

Chapter 3 maps the fundamental roles of Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis by comparing them to individual environmental sustainability approaches.
Chapter 4 focuses on frameworks and models for considering Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis to develop supply chain environmental sustainability.

Chapter 5 presents the current applications of Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis with critical evaluations.

Chapter 6 explores the future development of Industrial Ecology and Industrial

Symbiosis and also barriers to be overcome for their applications.