Contents: Preface PART I: AN OUTLINE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE POTENTIAL 1. Introducing the Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology Frank Boons and Jennifer Howard-Grenville 2. Ecology in the Social Sciences: An Overview Frank Boons 3. Don’t Fence Me In… Henrikke Baumann First intermezzo Out Into the Open: The Promise of Dialogue Frank Boons PART II: REGIONAL APPROACHES 4. Eco-industrial Parks and Industrial Ecology: Strategic Niche or Mainstream Development? David Gibbs 5. Facilitating Regional Industrial Symbiosis: Network Growth in the UK’s National Industrial Symbiosis Programme Raymond Paquin and Jennifer Howard-Grenville 6. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Symbiosis Linkages in Puerto Rican Industrial Regions Marian R. Chertow and Weslynne S. Ashton Second Intermezzo A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Industrial Ecology Research Cynthia Mitchell Third Intermezzo Regional Eco-industrial Development: Views from Different Stakeholders Anthony Chiu PART III: PRODUCT CHAIN APPROACHES 7. Transgenic Crops in Brazil: Scientific Decision-making for Social Ambiguities? Jeremy Hall and Stelvia Matos 8. Commodities, their Life-Cycle and Industrial Ecology Timothy M. Koponen 9. Sustainable Supply Chain Management Stefan Seuring, Romy Morana and Yan Liu Fourth Intermezzo Product Chain Management and Social Sciences: Path Dependency, Cultural Validity and Short- and Long-term Feedback Loops Claudia R. Binder Fifth Intermezzo The Exchange of Ideas between Social Science and Engineering Approaches to Product Chain Industrial Ecology Bart van Hoof PART IV: THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTRIBUTION RECONSIDERED 10. A Critical View on the Social Science Contribution to Industrial Ecology John Ehrenfeld 11. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology: Exploring the Dynamics of Industrial Ecosystems Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Frank Boons Index