[Itenv] CALL FOR PAPERS: ISIE 2009, 5th International Conference on Industrial Ecology

[Reid Lifset]

Dear colleagues,

The International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) will hold its 
5th International Conference, ISIE 2009, from June 21-24, 2009 in 
Lisbon, Portugal.

The theme of the conference is Transition towards Sustainability, 
with the following conference topics:
    * Sustainable consumption
    * Designing sustainable cities the urban and the social metabolisms
    * Industrial Ecology (IE) tools for sustainability
    * Visions on new IE based paradigms towards sustainability
    * Sustainable resource management
    * Managing end-of-life products
    * Industrial symbiosis
    * Eco-design: products and services of the future
    * Industrial Ecology in developing countries
Abstracts are invited on any of these topics and can be submitted 
until December 12, 2008 at

<http://isie2009.com/>http://isie2009.com/

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Technical Committee. Authors will 
be notified of abstract approval and form of presentation (oral or 
poster) by January 16, 2009. Contributions from emerging countries 
are particularly welcome.

For further details please visit the conference website at 
<http://isie2009.com/>http://isie2009.com/ (please bookmark this 
webpage. There is a similarly called website for another conference 
that uses the suffix *.org instead of *.com).

Looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon,

best wishes from the Conference Secretariat!


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Conference theme: Transition towards Sustainability


There are many dimensions on which sustainability depends, including 
technical, socio-economic, cultural, spatial, environmental 
preservation, distribution of wealth, etc. Achieving sustainability 
therefore requires a multitude of changes identified by different 
disciplines as system innovation, regime transformation, industrial 
transformation, technological transition, or socio-economic paradigm 
shift. The term transition covers all of these and its direction and 
speed are determined by the collective innovation decisions of 
various actors involved.

The notion of transition has increasingly gained attention over the 
past years, in academic as well as in policy arenas. Policy makers 
are especially interested in transitions since incremental change is 
thought by many to be insufficient to lead toward sustainability. 
Transition is perceived as a policy objective that has great 
potential to guide solutions to current problems in various domains.

In a transition within a complex socio-technical-ecological system, 
both the technical as well as the social/cultural dimensions change 
drastically. This emphasis on the co-evolution of technical and 
societal change distinguishes transitions from incremental processes, 
which are primarily characterized by technical change (through 
successive generations of technologies) with relatively little 
alteration of the societal embedding of these technologies.

The International Society for Industrial Ecology, ISIE, promotes 
Industrial Ecology (IE) as a way of finding innovative solutions to 
complicated environmental problems and facilitates communication 
among scientists, engineers, policymakers, managers and advocates who 
are interested in how environmental concerns and economic activities 
can be better integrated. The mission of the ISIE is to promote the 
use of industrial ecology in research, education, policy, community 
development, and industrial practices.

The field of Industrial Ecology has adopted and developed rigorous 
tools for assessing the environmental impacts of products, processes, 
industrial sectors and economies at local, regional and global 
scales. These include methods of life cycle assessment, material and 
energy flow analysis, applied thermodynamics, risk assessment, 
input-output analysis, and resource economics. These methods serve: 
in the design of green products and processes, e.g., green buildings, 
eco-industrial parks; in assessing technological change, 
dematerialization and decarbonization; and in developing policy to 
encourage product stewardship and environmental protection.

The ISIE, has a worldwide membership of about 500 leading scientists 
and engineers broadly concerned with the technical foundations of 
sustainable development. The membership, from academia, industry and 
government, has expertise in the technological development and 
societal progression towards industrial systems that are compatible 
with the functioning of natural ecosystems, e.g., efficient use of 
energy, material recycling and non-polluting. Many members of the 
society are advisors to national governments on matters of 
environmental technology and policy.


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Reid J. Lifset, Assoc. 
Dir.                     <http://environment.yale.edu/>School of 
Forestry & Env. Studies
Industrial Environmental Mgmt. Program  Yale University
Editor, <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jie>Journal of Industrial 
Ecology           205 Prospect Street
203-432-6949 (tel)  -5912 (fax)                 New Haven, CT   06511-2189  USA
reid.lifset at yale.edu

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Reid J. Lifset, Assoc. 
Dir.                     <http://environment.yale.edu/>School of 
Forestry & Env. Studies
Industrial Environmental Mgmt. Program  Yale University
Editor, <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jie>Journal of Industrial 
Ecology           205 Prospect Street
203-432-6949 (tel)  -5912 (fax)                 New Haven, CT   06511-2189  USA
reid.lifset at yale.edu
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