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前两届一般在400人左右。

1 - Sustainable Consumption

Moving towards sustainable consumption (SC) may, in the end, fall on individual action, but the debate about it must also acknowledge the structural factors that surround it. Attaining more SC patterns is a challenge that involves public authorities at all levels, business and consumers. To promote SC, technology may bring us a step forward in terms of efficiency both in production and consumption, but many other potentially effective legislative, economic, information, educational and other options are available. Sessions will include discussion about household consumption, mobility, green procurement, rebound effect, dematerialization etc.

2 - Designing sustainable cities – the urban and the social metabolisms

The concept of sustainable cities is a relatively new phenomenon. It has come to prominence due to the environmental, physical, economic and social pressures that affect all our cities. Urban regions typically exhibit high energy and material flows due to their high population densities and their huge and relatively dense material stocks. They import, transform, store, and export materials and energy to maintain their structure, enhance their growth, and grant their survival. In other words, they display a form of metabolism. Sessions will include urban indicators, city profiles, urban flows models, built environment, urban planning, policies for urban sustainable management, modelling the urban system and critical infrastructures.

3 - Industrial Ecology tools for sustainability

This theme explores the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to IE and the selection of the most appropriate IE tools for different purposes. Questions to be probed focus on quality (maturity, transparency) and on applicability of the tools. New tools and integration of different tools to enhance their capacities are also to be revealed. Of particular interest is also the integration of natural sciences with social science tools, to support the implementation of the analyses. Sessions will include system dynamics modeling, life-cycle analysis, life-cycle assessment input-output modeling, materials flow analysis, integrated sustainability assessment methods, scenario building, integrating qualitative and quantitative modeling, etc.

4 - Visions on new IE-based paradigms towards sustainability

The evolution of the industrial ecology has been guided by adopting the structure and behavior of natural ecosystems as a model for the design and operations of industrial economies. Loop-closing, industrial metabolism, industrial symbiosis and other metaphorically linked terms have served to guide the intellectual development of the field. New models of ecosystem behavior and management based on complexity have joined with earlier views coming from classical systems ecology. These new ideas are already seeding the field with new conceptual frameworks, tools, and practical applications. Sessions will include complexity modeling, adaptive management, implications for design, and others.

5 - Sustainable Resource Management

Managing resources effectively requires a delicate balance between addressing the needs of people with the needs of the environment. With ever increasing human populations, knowing what constitutes sustainable use for specific resources and environments will lead to more effective conservation and management. In addition, the development of alternative methods of resource use and production can help meet the needs of society. In the last few decades, the use of renewable energy has been promoted to offset the impacts of fossil fuel use. Also, novel methods of food production are emerging that capitalize on waste streams as a way to further benefit the environment and people. Sustainable resource management demands an integrated approach on resources from their extraction to their reuse or recycling in the end-of-life. Sessions will include critical problems in environmental and resource management namely the analysis of metals cycles, green taxes, sustainable forestry, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and conservation.

6 - Managing end-of-life products

End-of-life products or wastes are increasingly integrated in the new policy area of ‘Sustainable resource management’ reflecting the overall shift from an ‘end-of-pipe’ treatment of the waste issue towards the front of the waste policy hierarchy, i.e. waste prevention through more efficient use of natural resources. For wastes that are still generated, sustainable management involves achieving a situation where the wastes are non-hazardous or at least present only very low risks to the environment and our health; the majority of the wastes are either reintroduced into the economic cycle, especially by recycling, or are returned to the environment in a useful (e.g. composting) or harmless form; the quantities of waste that still need to go to final disposal are reduced to an absolute minimum and are safely destroyed or disposed of. Sessions will involve the above-mentioned aspects of end-of-life products management and related topics.

7 - Industrial symbiosis

Industrial symbiosis involves bringing together companies from all business sectors with the aim of improving resource efficiency through the exchange of materials, energy and water among firms, and by sharing assets, logistics and expertise. Work on industrial symbiosis testing, industrial ecosystem projects, and Eco-Industrial Parks is being carried out by researchers, companies, and developers all over the world. Sessions will include presentation of eco-industrial parks, networks and business case studies and also discussion of concepts, management solutions, etc.

8 - Eco-design: products and services of the future

Designing products by combining sustainability and industrial design offers a wide range of opportunities for innovation and differentiation, which provides the consumer with new, less environmentally damaging answers. It includes the development, design,, and evaluation of environmentally conscious products and services. At a larger scale, the transformation of production systems and consumption behavior towards services and product-service combinations is recognized as a potentially powerful concept. Sessions will include discussion about product service systems, design for disassembly, design for sustainability and new materials.

9 - Industrial Ecology in developing countries