Thesis
Redefining industrial landscape
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/103435
Abstract
The relationship between sustainability and industrial landscape provides the base upon which the central argument of my research has been built. This research argues that industrial landscape plays a significant role in the continuing development of contemporary American society and because of this role; industrial landscape must be redefined to consider finite resources and the impact production has on natural systems that provide the functional base of industry. Only through a new definition of industrial landscape, one that recognizes this relationship, can we begin to honestly address sustainable development. This research also introduces a framework of ideas in which we can begin to honestly approach sustainability. The emerging discipline of Industrial Ecology aspires to develop industrial landscape in a way that facilitates the production of goods that is compatible with notions of sustainability. The key aspect of industrial ecology is to apply a systemic approach to production that creates an industrial system that exhibits the closed-loop material and energy flow characteristics of natural ecosystems.
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Details
- Title
- Redefining industrial landscape
- Creators
- Ryan Dane Anderson
- Contributors
- Jolie B. Kaytes (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Horticulture, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525378401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis