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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. for improving energy system efficiency, 86 for life cycle analysis, 226, 232, 240-241 materials tracking and benchmarking, 29 measuring environmental performance, 26-27 measuring public awareness and understanding, 3-4, 28-29 metabolic process analysis, 61 national accounting systems, 29, 51-57 needs assessment, 133 organizational changes in, 190-191 public relations, 152-153 report formats, 141-142 tools for environmental decision making, 3-4 for total quality environmental management, 133 Design for environment, 105, 125-126, 238-240 Dredging, offshore, 157 E Economic growth, 31-32 n.4 challenges to sustainability, 103-104 decoupling of natural resource inputs, 52 evolutionary model of environmental policy making, 51-52 Efficiency in combustion engines, 57-59 in electricity generation, 80-82 energy consumption in buildings, 77-79 in energy system, barriers to, 85-87 for improving environmental quality, 2 industrial ecology goals, 74-75 in materials management, 38-39 resource management goals, 93 Electricity production and consumption coal vs. gas, 81-82 cost allocation for improving efficiency, 78 delivery system in United Kingdom, 88 end-use case study, 77-80 energy chain, 77 environmental effects in United Kingdom, 75 generation plant design, 80-82 home energy efficiency rating, 78-80 industrial ecology concepts, 73, 77, 82 inefficiencies, 59 interactions of individual enterprises, 77 patterns in United Kingdom, 75 subsidies for non-fossil-fuel use, 83 waste as fuel, 83 See also Energy systems Energy systems achievements of industrial symbiosis project, 120-122 aluminum industry consumption, 149 barriers to efficiency, 85-87 consumption in Japan, 237 corporate audit, 140 decoupling from national accounts, 56 designing for multiple-product cycles, 12 efficiency of combustion engines, 57-59 functionality analysis, 24 industrial ecology goals, 87 metabolic model of consumption, 57 natural gas market, 154-155 paper industry, 229-230 political economy, 59-61 price of energy as policy factor, 85 renewable vs. nonrenewable sources, 229-230 significance of, for industrial ecology project, 75 sustainable development strategies, 74 tracking and benchmarking, 29 waste materials for fuel, 42, 83 See also Electricity production and consumption Environmental protection business leadership for, 132 conservation vs. technological strategies for, 2 market-based mechanisms for, 7 public opinion, 208
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