Metaphors for Change : Partnerships, Tools and Civic Action for Sustainability

Front cover -- Half-title -- About the editors -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Metaphors for change -- Sustainable development -- Sustainable growth: DuPont's goal for the 21st century -- Life-cycle thinking: A new metaphor and a new paradigm -- Life-cycle thinking: What is it? -- Eco-efficiency -- Meeting needs, consuming resources -- Eco-efficiency: The chemicals industry -- The challenge of eco-efficiency -- Eco-efficiency: The electronics sector -- Management of chemicals in the microelectronics environment -- Eco-efficiency: Waste-free: remanufacturing -- Xerox: Environmental leadership programme -- Eco-efficiency: Harmonious co-existence -- Environmental management of Canon group -- Eco-effectiveness -- The next industrial revolution -- From products to services -- From end-of-pipe to integration -- Remarks by Klaus Töpfer 1997, 1999 -- Leapfrog: Short-term strategies for sustainability -- Zero emissions -- Zero emissions: An environmental engineering firm's challenge -- Zero emissions in construction -- Zero emissions: Clustering of industries (industrial ecology in practice) -- Industrial symbiosis -- Remarks (1999): Erling Pedersen -- Industrial ecology -- Is industrial ecology a new science? -- Industrial ecology in France -- Industrial ecology in practice: The French case -- Monitoring what matters -- Developments in indicators: Total material requirement (TMR) -- Environmental diplomacy -- The rise of the 'bio-diplomat' -- Environmental diplomacy in the US -- Environment and security -- Part 2. Partnerships for change -- Partnerships within industry -- The Keidanren appeal on environment -- Partnerships between government and business in Japan -- Japan's environmental policies -- Partnerships between government and business in Argentina.