Preliminary Program of the 2016 Industrial Ecology Gordon Research Conference now Available Online
The preliminary program for the 2016 Industrial Ecology Gordon Research Conference has been established and is now available online.
We are looking towards a very interesting line up of speakers which promise a high quality conference and lively discussions. There is still time to apply to attend the conference until May 22, 2016 but places may fill up much earlier than that. I look forward to welcome you all in Vermont next year.
Here is the list of sessions with discussion leaders in cursive and speakers:
- The Science of Industrial Ecology and Its Contribution to Decoupling Economic Activity from Environmental Impact
(Thomas Graedel / Mark Swilling / Helga Weisz) - Creating Environmentally Sustainable Value Chains for Products and Services
(Ester Van Der Voet / Sangwon Suh / Shelie Miller / Sabrina Spatari) - Improving the Analytical Capacity to Analyze the Growing Complexity of Global Supply Chains of Energy and Materials
(Stefan Pauliuk / Anke Schaffartzik / Jan Heemann-Minx) - Tailoring the Science of Industrial Ecology to the Needs of the Urban Planning and Design Process
(Anthony Capon / Anu Ramaswami / Jessica Seddon / Clinton Andrews) - New Methods to Analyze the Natural Resource Demand of Cities
(Tim Baynes / Hiroki Tanikawa / John Fernandez) - Guiding Sustainable Consumption and Production in Developed and Developing Countries
(Anthony Chiu / James West / Arnulf Grubler / Faye Duchin) - Improving Industrial Systems - The Contribution of Industrial Ecology to Innovation in the Business Sector
(Lewis Akenji / Marian Chertow / Sarah Sim) - How to Conceptualize a Sociologically Informed Industrial Ecology
(Vered Blass / Andrew Jorgenson / Henrikke Baumann / Joshua Newell) - A Green and Circular Economy - The Impact of Industrial Ecology as a Science for Policy
(Reid Lifset / Simon Corbell / Shi Lei)