Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technology and sustainability -- Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering concepts -- The relevance of biological ecology to technology -- Metabolic analysis -- Technological change and evolving risk -- The social dimensions of industrial ecology -- The concept of sustainability -- Sustainable engineering -- Industrial product development -- Design for environment and for sustainability -- An introduction to life-cycle assessment (LCA) -- The LCA impact and interpretation stages -- Streamlining the LCA process -- Systems analysis -- Industrial ecosystems -- Material flow analysis -- National material accounts -- Water and industrial ecology -- Urban industrial ecology -- Modeling in industrial ecology -- Scenarios for industrial ecology -- The status of resources -- Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering in developing countries -- Industrial ecology and sustainability in the corporation -- Industrial ecology and sustainability in government and society -- Looking to the future.