Ecologically sustainable industrial

The UNIDO Conference on Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development... 

In October 1991, UNIDO convened the Ministerial Conference on Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development (ESID), in Copenhagen, Denmark. This Conference was a milestone for the Environment Programme of the Organization and a major input, from the industry perspective, to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). 

Hybrid vehicle technologies use shared systems of electrical and gas power to create ecologically sustainable industrial and passenger vehicles. With both types of vehicles, the main goals are to reduce hazardous emissions and conserve fuel consumption. 

IE provides a foundation for sustainable industrialization, not just incremental improvement in environmental management. The objectives of IE suggest a potential for reindustrialization in economies that have lost major components of their industrial base. Specifically, the objective of industrial ecology is not merely to reduce pollution and waste as traditionally conceived, it is to reduce throughput of all kinds of materials and fuels, whether they leave a site as products, emissions, or waste. 

The automotive industry is the prime driver of green composites because the industry is faced with issues for which green materials offer a solution [69]. Many components for the automotive sector are now made from natural fibre composite materials [70]. Natural fibres have intrinsic properties like mechanical strength, low weight and low cost, ecological sustainability, low energy requirements for... 

In last years the attribute soft has become of widespread use in natural sciences soft sciences (like ecology, meteorology, etc.) have had great attendances, soft processing has become the major indication for sustainable industrial development, soft computing has proposed itself as a practically valid alternative to exact numerical computing, soft matter has attracted large interest [34, 35], and the methods of soft chemistry have become of widespread use for the preparation of new materials [36]. 

The acceptability of some industrial and ephemeral development projects such as landfill or mineral extraction may depend upon an ability to restore the landscape after exploitation has been completed. As more rural development projects come to fruition, ecologists will become increasingly involved in resource management to ensure that yields are sustained and to avert the undesirable consequences of development. Some industrial developments and rearranged plant layout schemes will not be complicated, but when ecology studies are needed, the employment of specialist consultants is recommended. 

The recent introduction of the term industrial ecology stems from its use by Frosch and Gallopoulos [10] in a paper on environmentally favorable strategies for manufacturing. Industrial ecology (IE) is now a branch of systems science for sustainability, or a framework for designing and operating industrial systems as sustainable and interdependent with natural... 

Industrial ecology is applied to the management of human activity on a sustainable basis by (a) minimizing energy and materials usage (b) ensuring acceptable quality of life for people ... 

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