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What is This Module About?
    A Guide to This Module
    Module Overview
    Summary 
 

Unit 1:

        How Does Industry Alter the Global Environment?  Understanding the Problem --Background Information

        Instructor’s Guide to Activities
        Student Worksheets
        Answers to Activities
 

Unit 2:

       A Conceptual Framework: Industrial Ecology as a System  --Background Information

 
Unit 3:  
Glossary 

References to All Units

Supporting Materials 

Appendix:  Suggested Readings
 

 
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Figure 1: A Simple System Model
Figure 2: Open and Closed Systems of Materials Flow
Figure 3: (a) Linear material flows in “Type I” ecology  (b) Quasi-cyclic materials flows in “Type II” ecology  (c) Cyclic materials flows in “Type III” ecology
Figure 4: The Type III Model of the Industrial Ecosystem
Figure 5: The Total Industrial Ecology Cycle
Figure 6: A Motor Vehicle Life Cycle
 
 
 
 
 
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