Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal

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Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal (PIE)
Editor in Chief
Prof. Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann
ISSN online
1478-8764
ISSN print
1476-8917
4 issues per year

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CiteScore
1.1 (2023)
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PIE contributes to international research and practice in industrial ecology for sustainable development. PIE aims to establish channels of communication between academics, practitioners, business stakeholders and the government with an interdisciplinary and international approach to the challenges of corporate social responsibility and inter-organisational environmental management.

Topics covered include

  • Material/energy/substance flow analysis, business strategy, business models
  • Industrial metabolism, lifecycle assessment/management
  • Eco-industrial parks, industrial symbiosis, industrial ecosystems, environmental stakeholder/network management, sustainable development
  • Environmental/integrated supply/value chain management
  • Sustainability related aspects of marketing (e.g. green marketing, co-creation)
  • Inter-organisational management and EMS, regional EMS
  • Startups, SMEs, environmental auditing/reporting, decision-making analysis
  • CSR, extended producer responsibility, cleaner production
  • Legislation, government, environmental policy instruments
  • Market/economic-based environmental policy instruments, voluntary instruments
  • Comparison of economic/industrial systems and natural ecosystems
  • Industrial ecosystem metaphor/analogy, structural/organisational properties
  • Biomimicry, metabolism in natural ecosystems/industrial systems
  • Earth system/landscape ecology, earth systems engineering, ecological economics
  • Philosophy of science, ethics, the scientific field of industrial ecology

Material and energy flow analysis

  • Industrial metabolism
  • Material flow analysis (MFA)
  • Energy flow analysis
  • Life cycle assessment (LCA)
  • Substance flow analysis (SFA)
  • Eco-industrial parks, industrial symbiosis and industrial ecosystems

Business strategy, environmental management and industrial ecology

  • Business strategy and inter-organisational environmental management
  • Life cycle management
  • Environmental supply chain management
  • Integrated chain management
  • Environmental value chain management
  • Environmental stakeholder management
  • Environmental network management
  • Environmental management systems (EMS) and inter-organisational management
  • Environmental auditing and reporting and inter-organisational management
  • Regional environmental management systems (REMS)
  • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  • SMEs and inter-organisational environmental management
  • Decision-making analysis and the environment
  • Cleaner production

Government, environmental policy instruments and industrial ecology

  • Legislation
  • Market and economic based instruments of environmental policy
  • Voluntary instruments
  • Extended producer responsibility

Comparison of economic/industrial systems and natural ecosystems

  • Industrial ecosystem metaphor and analogy
  • Industrial ecosystem structural and organisational properties
  • Biomimicry
  • Metabolism in natural ecosystems and in industrial systems
  • Earth system ecology
  • Landscape ecology
  • Earth systems engineering
  • Ecological economics
  • Philosophy of science, ethics and the scientific field of industrial ecology
  • Sustainable development and industrial ecology

Objectives

The objective of PIE is to bridge material and energy flow analysis to business studies, management and organisational studies and to corporate environmental management. In this way, our objective is to contribute to the ecological, but also to the social and economic dimensions, of sustainable development. While the approach of PIE in combining engineering and natural science orientated methods with social science or business economics methods is a novel and fresh contribution to the theory of industrial ecology, the journal also sees this bridge as the critical step that must be taken to turn industrial ecology theory into industrial ecology practice.

Readership

Academics, practitioners, business stakeholders and the government and others involved in sustainable development research and practice, in material and energy flow studies and applications and in corporate social responsibility and environmental management.

Contents

PIE encourages the use of a systems approach to the flows of matter and energy. This provides a vehicle to complement intra-organisational environmental management with inter-organisational environmental management, because the physical flows cross products, process and firm boundaries. Inter-organisational environmental management addresses the entire life cycle of products from cradle to grave and all the networks, economic actors and business stakeholders along this life cycle.

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Editor in Chief

  • Kaufmann, Hans Rüdiger, University of Applied Management Studies Mannheim, Germany
    (hans-ruediger.kaufmann@hdwm.org)

Editor

  • Fiorini, Niccolò, University of Siena, Italy

Associate Editor

  • Pucci, Tommaso, University of Siena, Italy

Editorial Board Members

  • Abbas, Qaiser, Ghazi University, Pakistan
  • Baumann, Henrikke, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Brent, Alan C., University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Brown, Terrence E., KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Cerin, Pontus, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Eriksson, Ola, University of Gävle, Sweden
  • Fichtner, Wolf, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Figge, Frank, KEDGE Business School, France
  • Finnveden, Göran, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
  • Gupta, Bhaskar Sen, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  • Hilty, Lorenz M., Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), Switzerland
  • Hoffren, Jukka, Statistics Finland, Finland
  • Honkasalo, Antero, Ministry of Environment, Finland
  • Huber, Joseph, Martin-Luther-Universität, Germany
  • Huesemann, Michael H., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
  • Jokinen, Pekka, University of Tampere, Finland
  • Kajanus, Miika, Savonia Polytechnic, Finland
  • Korhonen, Outi, University of Turku, Finland
  • Kovács, Gyöngyi, HANKEN – Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland
  • Kytzia, Susanne, Institute for Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Switzerland
  • Laestadius, Staffan, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Lal, David, Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU), Kazakhstan
  • Lovio, Raimo, Helsinki School of Business Administration, Finland
  • Luukkanen, Jyrki, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
  • Mäenpää, Ilmo, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Melanen, Matti, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland
  • Niutanen, Ville, KFS Finland Oy, Finland
  • Ong, Boon Lay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Paloviita, Ari, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Peck, Philip, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics – IIIEE, Sweden
  • Pongracz, Eva, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Rikhardsson, Pall, SAS Institute A/S, Denmark
  • Robèrt, Karl-Henrik, The Natural Step International, Sweden
  • Roberts, Brian H., University of Canberra, Australia
  • Sahay, Arun, Management Development Institute, India
  • Salamzadeh, Aidin, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Salminen, Pekka, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Schaltegger, Stefan, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany
  • Seager, T. P., Purdue University, USA
  • Snäkin, Juha-Pekka, Oulu Polytechnic, Finland
  • Stankeviciene, Jelena, Vilnius University, Lithuania
  • Tansey, James, UBC Sauder School of Business, Canada
  • Vehmas, Jarmo, Turku School of Economics, Finland
  • Vijayan, V., K. Ramakrishnan College of Technology, India
  • Von Hauff, Michael, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • Von Malmborg, Fredrik, Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communication, Sweden
  • Yang, Perry Pei-Ju, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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