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The Journal of Industrial Ecology invites you to submit articles for a special issue on "Environmental Applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)" by September 1, 2009. Scott Matthews of Carnegie Mellon University and Eric Masanet of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will jointly serve as editors of the special issue.

A more detailed call for papers can be found at http://www.yale.edu/jie/ cfp-ict.html

The Journal of Industrial Ecology is a peer-reviewed international journal owned by Yale University, published by Wiley-Blackwell and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Industrial ecology is an emerging field that examines the flow of materials and energy at various scales as part of the study and pursuit of sustainable production and consumption.

Support for this special issue is provided by the Leading Edge Forum of the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Falls Church, Virginia, USA.


Suggested Topics for the Special Issue
The goal of this special issue is to examine applications of ICT that produce environmental gains, especially those involving resource efficiency, loop-closing, design for the environment and other concepts central to industrial ecology. Appropriate topics include:

• Building and process control systems
• Building information modeling (BIM)
• Enterprise information systems that integrate environmental data with core business work flow and supply chain systems
• New developments in telecommuting and teleconferencing
• Changing employee and customer behavior to support environmental goals and processes
• Environmental auditing, reporting, and verification enabled through ICT
• Use of ICT to track substances, materials and products through their life cycle
• Grid/cloud computing, mesh networks, CPU scavenging and sensor-based systems
• Web 2.0

Papers can describe generic applications, assess conceptual issues and/or present case studies of specific applications.  Papers should comply with the state of the art methodology in life cycle assessment, material flow accounting and related analytical techniques.  Case studies which are rich in detail, forthcoming about both strengths and weaknesses of applications and which avoid promotional descriptions of companies or technologies are especially welcome.  Reviews of relevant recent books and reports, including policy documents, are also sought to enrich the special issue. Ancillary data relevant to articles can be posted on the journal's web site in the form of supplementary materials.


Industrial Ecology
Industrial ecology is an emerging field that examines local, regional, and global uses and flows of materials and energy in products, processes, industrial sectors and economies. It focuses on the potential role of industry in reducing environmental burdens throughout the product life cycle.  Additional information about the field of industrial ecology can be found http://www.is4ie.org/history.


How to Submit
Manuscripts should be original, previously unpublished, in English, and between 3,500 and 7,000 words in length. Submission implies that the manuscript has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted electronically via Manuscript Central at < http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jie>. Details about the preparation of the manuscript can be obtained from the Journal's web page < www.wiley.com/go/jie> or from the editor.

Send inquiries to:
Reid Lifset
Editor, Journal of Industrial Ecology
Yale University
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT, 06511-2189  USA
indecol@yale.edu
www.wiley.com/go/jie

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