To stimulate transitions toward sustainability we need to build a strong knowledge base in this field. Industrial Ecology, as a framework for capturing both theoretical and practical knowledge, should contribute in many areas, including the following selected to shape this conference:
- Sustainable consumption
- Designing sustainable cities – the urban and the social metabolisms
- Industrial Ecology tools for sustainability
- Visions on new IE-based paradigms towards sustainability
- Sustainable resource management
- Managing end-of-life products
- Industrial symbiosis
- Eco-design: products and services of the future
- Industrial Ecology in developing countries
-Environmentally Extended Input Output Analysis