Promoting More Sustainable Practices through Industrial Ecology and Industrial Ecosystems

Dear colleagues,

The research field of industrial ecology has seen extensive growth in recent years, with the production of many novel approaches and methods to understand the complexity and sustainability of material and energy flows in society. This has been further exemplified with the uptake and prevalence of key notions, such as the circular economy, which shares and borrows many concepts with the industrial ecology field.

This interdisciplinary field offers many insights to address all three pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic, and social) for promoting superior consumption and production activities, the knowledge of which provides support for decision makers and stakeholders along global supply chains to address micro- to macro-level changes.

Manuscripts for this Special Issue are invited from researchers that apply tools, concepts, and approaches from the industrial ecology field to analyze the sustainability of products and applications worldwide. Topics of interest include those addressing subfields within industrial ecology, but are not limited to the following:

• Life cycle sustainability assessment of (applied) industrial ecology practices;
• Life cycle management and life cycle costing;
• Industrial symbiosis networks and eco-industrial parks;
• Sustainability implications of the circular economy;
• Urban metabolism and urban symbiosis for cleaner production and consumption.

Dr. Miguel Mendonca Reis Brandao
Dr. Michael Martin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Clean Technologies is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Free publication for well-prepared manuscripts submitted before 31 December 2019. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• industrial ecology
• life cycle assessment (LCA)
• life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA)
• industrial symbiosis
• urban symbiosis
• urban metabolism
• material flow analysis