`This is an especially timely book. Carefully organized and   well motivated, its power lies in the explicit effort to ask how industrial   ecology and innovation studies do, can and should intersect.'  - Reid Lifset, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and   editor, Journal of Industrial Ecology    This book explores the disciplinary interfaces and practical   implications of working across the two disciplines of industrial ecology   (IE) and innovation studies (IS). Both disciplines have something to say   about instigating environmental improvement and more sustainable futures.   IE is predicated on the idea that social and economic systems mirror, or   should be made to mirror, natural ecological systems. Proponents of IE   devise models and techniques to trace material and energy resource flows as   they move through social and economic systems. They propose policy and   management improvements to increase the resource efficiency of such   systems. By contrast, IS researchers work with the idea that innovation is   a dynamic activity, vital to social and economic change and is shaped by a   range of actors in industry, in government and in households.    The authors illustrate the conceptual and practical problems and   opportunities of working across this bi-disciplinary interface, with case   studies presented from each and from hybrid perspectives that draw on both.   These include applied examples from IE such as an evaluation of industrial   symbiosis in the UK and from working projects in industrialising countries.   Cases that originate with IS cover the areas of food, construction and   waste incineration. New directions for conceptual development and further   research are also offered. Conceptual blindspots and research gaps are   identified at the interface of the two disciplines.    Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation will appeal to a wide and   interdisciplinary audience including academics and researchers of   environmental innovation, management and economics, industrial ecology and   schools of environmental engineering. Business environmental practitioners,   consultants and managers working with techniques such as life-cycle   analysis, environmental impact assessment and collaborative industrial   symbiosis initiatives will also find much to engage them within this book.

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