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This ground-breaking study presents a new way of looking at one of the most pressing problems facing humanity today- industrial development in the face of global environmental change. It views the issue as a metabolic process revealing very important policy implications. The industrial metabolism perspective considers the range of interactions between energy, materials and the environment. The study begins with a description of the concept of industrial metabolism and its policy implications. It then examines industrial restructuring in industrial and developing countries and includes a number of illustrative case studies. The final section of the book looks at implications of the concept for the future. The important arguments and analyses presented offer the reader a refreshingly different kind of discussion of the environmental predicament.
