Industrial ecology is coming of age and this superb book brings together leading scholars to present a state-of-the-art overviews of the subject. Each part of the book comprehensively covers the following issues in a systematic style: the goals and achievements of industrial ecology and the...

1 Einleitung -- 2 Historischer Überblick -- 3 Entstehung des Begriffs Bioökonomie -- 4 Strategien der Bioökonomie -- 5 Begriffsabgrenzungen -- 6 Bioökonomie in Deutschland -- 7 Die sieben Herausforderungen der Bioökonomie -- 8 Vier Fallstudien - Nachhaltigkeit/IKEA;...

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological-economic model in which such management measures...