Industrial ecology
Life-cycle assessment
Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated…
Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an…
Energy efficiency
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide…
Environmental economics
Environmental economics is a sub-field of economics that is concerned with environmental issues. It has become a widely studied topic…
Ecological economics
Ecological economics (also called eco-economics, ecolonomy or bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen) is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic…
Ecological modernization
Ecological modernization is a school of thought in the social sciences that argues that the economy benefits from moves towards…