System application ppt
System application
- Industrial Ecology is a dynamic systems-based Framework for managing human activity on a long-term basis by reducing energy and material consumption, as well as ensuring people have a good quality of life.
- reducing human activity’s ecological impact to levels that natural systems can tolerate;
- Maintaining the economic viability of systems for industry, trade, and commerce, as well as conserving and restoring ecological health and biodiversity.
- The Industrial Ecology approach applies systems science to industrial systems, defining the system boundary to include the natural environment while attempting to improve the system.
- “Industrial systems” refers not only to private sector manufacturing and service, but also to government operations, such as infrastructure provision.
What is Industrial Ecology, and why do we require it?
- We are living in an era of exponential change in world systems, which includes the availability of resources for growth, the loss of natural capital, the discharge of a growing range of toxic compounds, climate change, and the effects of all of these forces on human and natural systems.
- Plastics from rubbish dumping in the ocean, for example, are breaking down to the molecular level and entering food chains.
- Because of glacier melting caused by a warmer environment, the ocean waters are becoming Increasing in their level.
- To deal with the complicated interconnections among such complex systems, decision-makers and citizens need assistance from a systems-based, interdisciplinary approach.