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Obituary: Stefan Gossling-Reisemann
We mourn our long time colleague, Stefan Gößling-Reisemann, who has been a Professor at the University of Bremen, a member of the artec Research Center Sustainability in Bremen since 2003, editor for book reviews for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and a valued part of th...
Winners of the 2018 Graedel Prizes
In 2013, the Graedel Prizes were established to honor Professor Thomas Graedel, now emeritus at Yale University after an outstanding career as researcher and pioneer in the field of industrial ecology (IE). The prizes are awarded to the best two papers published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology ...
Democracy Now!
The liberal world order is in decay as civic participation crumbles, social participation gives room to passive consumption, and citizens let themselves be overpowered by the elites. Not so in the ISIE! A hardy band of dedicated nominating committee members has produced an excellent slate of diverse...
JIE - Open Access?
As the publishing world is struggling with its economic model, we are having a forum debate about moving the JIE to an open access model. Please join in!
https://is4ie.org/forum/general/7
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Energy Transitions and Social Revolutions
Our longterm research on the linkage between the transition to fossil fuels and the occurrence of social revolutions worldwide is out now in Tech Forecasting and Soc Change, and freely accessible for the next 50 days at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517311526?dgcid=author...
2019 Membership Renewals
In the past, ISIE memberships were managed by Wiley. However, as part of the transition to an independent organization, the ISIE is changing the way in which memberships are being managed. The main changes are outlined below.
Payments will be made on our website.
Instead of bein...
Volunteers for conference planning committee
I am currently looking for 2-3 volunteers who can help the ISIE council and president in the planning and preparation of future ISIE events. The main task of the ad-hoc committee will be to consider the schedule of regional events, biannual conferences, Gordon conferences, section and topical events...
Member Spotlights: Matan Mayer
Dr. Matan Mayer is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Design at IE University in Madrid. He is an architect and a construction technologist whose research focuses on reducing environmental impacts of buildings and cities through an implementation of life cycle ori...
UNIDO evaluates Vietnamese Eco Industrial Park Project and finds good results
Read about UNIDO's evaluation and the press release regarding it here: http://sggpnews.org.vn/business/businesses-take-initiative-in-attending-eco-industrial-park-project-78583.html
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Nominate candidates for the Gunnerus Sustainability Science Award
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) are please to invite for nominations to the Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science. The Award winner receives NOK 1 million (~110 000 euro).
The award honors outst...
Member Spotlights: Kangkang Tong
Kangkang (KK) Tong is a Post-doc at the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota. Her interest is about cities, infrastructure, and sustainability. Her research aims to investigate how and to what extent cities can contribute to sustainable deve...
A strategic niche management perspective on transitions to eco-industrial park development: a systematic review of case studies
Susar, Hildago, and Chiaroni in Resources, Conservation & Recycling Vol 140 January 2019 pages 338-359 see the abstract here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344918302088
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