Practical Guide to Industrial Ecology by Input-Output Analysis

Shinichiro Nakamura is a Professor Emeritus of Industrial Ecology at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He taught IE in undergraduate and graduate courses from 2010 until his retirement in 2022 and has been producing IE-related articles in high-impact journals.  In 2021, he was awarded the Society Prize from the International Society for Industrial Ecology for his outstanding contributions to IE.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Processes and Elemental Flows.- 3. The IO Model of a Simple Economy without Fossil Fuel.- 4. Standard Input-Output: Single and Multi-Regional models.- 5. Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis (EEIO) and Hybrid LCA.- 6. Emissions and Mitigation.- 7. Material Flow Analysis.