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Department of Energy (DOE) Task Force on Alternative Futures for the DOE national laboratories; a member of the National Research Council Committee on Research and Peer Review in the Environmental Protection Agency; a member of the Advisory Committee on the United Nations Environmental Programme Working Group on Product Design for Sustainability; a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Industrial Ecology and Total Quality Environmental Management; and a former member of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board.
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From 1987 to 1990, she was employed in the computer services department at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Since 1992, Ayres has been a research associate in the Center for Management of Environmental Resources at the European Business School INSEAD, Fontainbluau, France, where she has coauthored several papers and a book, Industrial Ecology: Towards Closing the Materials Cycle (Edward Elgar Publishers, 1996)
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Water Management Division. Previously, he was a senior environmental engineer in the same organization with responsibilities for a variety of activities focusing on monitoring the quality of water in the Tennessee River and its reservoirs and tributaries, and interpreting the data to identify trends and relate water quality to land use, natural processes, and pollution impacts.
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He is a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineering, the American Agricultural Economics Association, and the American Economic Association. Faeth holds degrees in agricultural engineering from the University of Florida and in resource policy from Dartmouth College.
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He has teaching and research interests in the areas of industrial and environmental chemistry, organic chemistry, and polymer synthesis, and has published numerous papers related to these interests. Hocking holds nine patents in the fields of monomers, process chemistry, and medical devices.
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His responsibilities include developing biological criteria for streams, developing habitat assessment methods, and compiling the Ohio Water Resource Inventory. Rankin holds an M.S.
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His work with the company's Health, Safety and Environmental Services organization includes environmental studies for Eastman facilities in Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Strang represents Eastman in the Water Environment Federation, The Society for Risk Analysis, and on environmental risk committees for the American Industrial Health Council and the Chemical Manufacturer's Association.
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charter in 1990 and since that time has taught Level I and Level II financial statement analysis in CFA review programs in the United States, Zurich, and the Far East. Todd is chief consultant for the development of the Association of Investment Management's Equity Specialization Program, a post-CFA curriculum.
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Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, is past chair of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Center for Waste Reduction Technologies, chairs the National Pollution Prevention Center Advisory Board, and is a frequent author and speaker on pollution prevention and industry's proactive response to environmental issues.
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INDEX 295 Index A metals smelting and refining, 138-145, 149, 151, 158, 162-164 Academy of Natural Sciences, 4, 219 mining, not energy minerals, 112-118, 148, Accounting methods, 64-173 150, 158, 161, 169 agricultural sector, 8, 75-83, 89-92, 93, 96, multifactor productivity, 71, 84-86 97-112 natural resource accounting, 7-8, 70-83 air pollution, 66, 68, 69, 84-85, 97, 99, 101, rangelands, 89, 92-95, 101 106, 108-109 standards, 72-73, 91-92 chemical indicators, 69, 89, 90-91, 102 stone, clay, and glass industries, 145-146, chemicals industry, 123, 125-138, 151 150, 151 developing countries, 71-72, 73-76 3M's waste ratio, 6, 8, 66-69 electric power, 8, 84-86, 119 toxic substances, 6, 65-66, 68, 69, 78, 89, energy resource extraction and processing, 96, 99-100 118-123, 124, 137, 148, 158 water pollution, 68, 69, 91-92, 109, 114, fish processing industry, 72-73, 75, 78, 98, 118, 120 104, 105, 107, 108 see also Cost and cost-benefit factors food and feed processing, 105-108, 150, Aesthetics and recreation, 15, 26, 27, 35, 77, 164 93, 260, 281, 283 forest and wood products, 73, 74, 96, 97, noise, 59 108-112, 113, 149, 150, 158, 161 Agricultural chemicals, 8, 99, 101-103, 115, fossil fuel combustion, 146-148, 149, 151 125, 128, 129, 170 industrial ecology, national material bioassays, 192, 266 metrics, 157-173 Agricultural sector, 8, 75-83, 89-92, 93, 96 limitations of, 66, 78-79 accounting methods, 8, 75-83, 89-92, 93, managerial decision support, 5-6, 177-187 96, 97-112 (passim) air pollution, 97, 99, 101, 106, 108, 149, 150 materials balances and aggregate waste import/export, 98, 105, 106, 107, 162, 169 generation, with breakdowns by sector, materials balances and aggregate waste 96-156 generation, 97-112, 148, 149, 150, 158 295
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