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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[21][9.19.04]
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:53:24 -0700

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

-I’m going to initiate a thread dedicated to “ecosystem information engineering,” the branch of Industrial Ecology I was referring to. Just to give you an appetizer: “The means by which living ecosystems have created robust knowledge systems and information cycles should be understood in terms useful for managing current society’s information explosion. As industrial society evolves toward the information society, holistic models are needed that account for the available energy and material resources required to operate effective information ecosystems, such as service industries.” (To read the entire article this was excerpted from, go to http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/
default.asp?sid=E6D28F5F-B575-47F2-8A1A- 681FC9F9E74C&ttype=6&tid=11735.)

Here are titles found in a MIT Press website search for "ecosystem information
engineering" (this url works:)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/search/default.asp?qtype=k&query=ecosystem+information+engineering&sid=E24DD7D0-0850-46DC-B011-C30B68B9F21B&Go.x=10&Go.y=3&Go=Go

Industrial Ecology and Ecological Engineering
Opportunities for Symbiosis
David R. Tilley
In The Journal of Industrial Ecology
Volume 7, Issue 2 / Spring 2003
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The first symbiotic area, ecosystem engineering for byproduct recovery, is defined as the design, creation, and management of living ecosystems (e.g., forests, wetlands) that utilize the by-products of industrial systems. Examples of this exist, including constructed wetlands for lead recovery and phyto-mining of nickel tailings. The second symbiotic focus is entitled “ecosystem analogues for industrial ecology,” which fits with a founding principle of IE to strive to have industry emulate the energy efficiencies and material cycles of natural ecosystems. This focal area quantifies the ecological analogy and exploits the tremendous library of design alternatives that nature has developed over thousands of years to deal with varied resource situations. The third focal area is termed “ecosystem information engineering.” The means by which living ecosystems have created robust knowledge systems and information cycles should be understood in terms useful for managing current society’s information explosion. As industrial society evolves toward the information society, holistic models are needed that account for the available energy and material resources required to operate effective information ecosystems, such as service industries.

Knowledge Engineering and Management
The CommonKADS Methodology
Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans, Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de Hoog, Nigel
Shadbolt, Walter Van de Velde and Bob Wielinga
Cloth / December 1999

From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Access to Information in the Networked World
Christine L. Borgman
Cloth / March 2000
Examines questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the Global
Information Infrastructure

Engineering and the Mind's Eye
Eugene S. Ferguson
Cloth / August 1992
In this expanded version of a remarkable essay published in Science more than a decade ago, Eugene Ferguson takes a probing look at the process of engineering design, arguing that despite modern technical advances, good engineering is still as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation.

Information Characteristics and the Structure of Landscapes
Vesselin K. Vassilev, Terence C. Fogarty and Julian F. Miller
In Evolutionary Computation
Volume 8, Issue 1 / Spring 2000

Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication
Ronald E. Rice, Maureen McCreadie and Shan-Ju L. Chang
Cloth / September 2001
An interdisciplinary study of the basic human activities of accessing and
browsing.

Internet Publishing and Beyond
The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property
Brian Kahin and Hal R. Varian (Eds.)
Paper / August 2000



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