Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-373).

Industrial metabolism : theory and policy / Robert U. Ayres -- Ecosystem and the biosphere : metaphors for human-induced material flows / Rudolf B. Husar -- Industrial restructuring in industrial countries / Udo E. Simonis --Industrial restructuring in developing countries : the case of India / Rajendra K. Pachauri, Mala Damodaran, and Himraj Dang -- Evolution, sustainability, and industrial metabolism / Peter M. Allen -- Industrial metabolism at the national level : a case-study on chromium and lead pollution in Sweden, 1880-1980 / Ulrik Lohm, Stefan Anderberg, and Bo Bergbäck -- Industrial metabolism at the regional level : the Rhine Basin / William M. Stigliani and Stefan Anderberg -- Industrial metabolism at the regional and local level : a case-study on a Swiss region / Paul H. Brunner, Hans Daxbeck, and Peter Baccini -- A historical reconstruction of carbon monoxide and methane emissions in the United States, 1880-1980 / Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, and Joel A. Tarr -- Sulphur and nitrogen emission trends for the United States : an application of the materials flow approach / Rudolph B. Husar -- Consumptive uses and losses of toxic heavy metals in the United States, 1880-1890 / Robert U. Ayres and Leslie W. Ayres -- The precaution principle in environmental management / Timothy O'Riordan -- Transfer of clean(er) technologies to developing countries / Sergio C. Trindade -- A plethora of paradigms : outlining an information system on physical exchanges between the economy and nature / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl, and Harald Payer.