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Dr. Robert U. AYRES     robert.ayres@insead.edu
  • INSEAD Emeritus Professor Visiting Professor Chalmers University Gothenburg (Sweden)
  • Prof. Ayres joined INSEAD in 1992, becoming the first Novartis (for­merly Sandoz) Chair of Management and the Environment, as well as the founder of CMER. He directed CMER from 1992-2000, when retired. He remains an active members of INSEAD, producing numerous publications on topics ranging from Indus­trial Metabolisms and Industrial Ecology, through Environmental Policy and Tech­nology Evalua­tion, Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation, Envi­ron­mental Economics, to Eco-restructuring.

Publicaciones

BOOKS

"Economic Growth and Change in material World", Robert U. Ayres and Katalin Martinas, Edward Elgar, London (Forthcoming 2005)

“Handbook of Industrial Ecology”, Robert U. Ayres and Leslie Ayres (co-eds), UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

"Industrial Metabolism", UNU Press, Tokyo, Japan (1994) (with Udo Simonis, co-editor).

"Information, Entropy and Progress: A New Evolutionary Paradigm", AIP Press (1994).

"Industrial Ecology: Towards Closing the Materials Cycle", Edward Elgar, London (1996) (with Leslie W. Ayres).

"Turning Point: The End of the Growth Paradigm", Earthscan, London (1998).

"Eco-Restructing: Implications for Sustainable Development", UNU Press, Tokyo, Japan (1998) (with Paul M. Weaver, co-editor).

"Accounting for Resources, I & II", Edward Elgar, London (1998/99) (with Leslie W. Ayres).

"Handbook of Industrial Ecology", Edward Elgar, forthcoming (2001) (with Leslie W. Ayres, co-editor).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Economic Assumption in Need of Renovation”, in Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 62, 115-117 (1999)

“What have we learned?” in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 62, 9-12, 1999, 30th Anniversary Issue

“Organismus Industriesystem”, with U. Simonis, in Politische Ökologie, 62, September 1999

“Turning Point. The End of the Growth Paradigm”, in World Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, Pp. 25-27, 1999

“Commentary on the Utility of the Ecological Footprint Concept”, in Ecological Economics, Vol. 32, Pp. 347-350, 2000

“The Life Cycle of Chlorine: Part IV: Accounting for Persistent Cyclic Organo-Chlorines”, with Leslie W. Ayres, in Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 3, No. 2 & 3, 2000 (also INSEAD Working Paper 96/33/EPS)

“On Forecasting Discontinuities”, in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 65, Pp. 81-97, 2000

“The Minimum Complexity of Endogenous Growth Models: the Role of Physical Resource Flows”, in Energy, forthcoming. Also INSEAD No. 99/37/EPS (CMER)

“Process Simulation as a Tool for Risk Analysis: the Nitrogen Chemicals Sector”, Special Issue of the European Journal of Operations Research, forthcoming

“Strong vs. Weak Sustainability: Economics, Natural Sciences, and ‘Consilience’”, with J. Gowdy and Jeroen van den Bergh, in Environmental Ethics, forthcoming.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Is the US Economy Dematerializing? main indicators and drivers” in The Economics of Industrial Ecology: Mehtods and Applications, MIT Press 2004.

“Resources, Scarcity,Technology and Growth” in Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium, Johns Hopkins UNiversity Press (in press)

“Exergy: Reference States and Balance Conditions” in Encyclopedia of Energy, Vol 2, 2004 Elsevier

“Thermodynamics and Economics, Overview” in Encyclopedia of Energy, Vol 6, 2004 Elsevier

“The Digital Economy: Where do we stand?” with Eric Williams, in Technological Forecasting & Social Changes, 71-2004- pp315-339.

“El crecimiento economico sostenible: un dificil dessafio”, in Hacia un Desarollo Economico Medioambiental Sostenible, Federacion de Cajas de Ahorros Vasco-Navarras. Bilbao, Spain, February 2000.

“Process Simulation as a Tool for Risk Analysis: the Nitrogen Chemicals Sector”, in Handbook of Industrial Ecology, R. Ayres and L. Ayres (co-eds). UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

“Ecology vs. Economics: Confusing Production and Consumption”, in Cybernetics, Ecology & Bioeconomics. 2000 Cybernetics Academy.

“On Green Technology: A Framework for Evaluation”, in Innovation-oriented Environmental Regulation - Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Analy­sis, Jens Hemmelskampet al. (eds), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, and ZEW Economics Studies, Manheim, Germany, 2000.

“The Need for a New Growth Paradigm” Chapter 7 in C. Cleveland; R. Costanza and D. Stern (eds) The Nature of Economics and the Economics of Nature, based on a plenary speech at IEEE Conference, Boston, MA, 1996. To be published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2000.

“Eco-Efficiency”, in T. Munn (ed), Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, J. Wiley, New York, forthcoming.

“Industrial Ecology”, in Encyclopedia of Global Change, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Industrial Metabolism”, in Encyclopedia of Global Change, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Sustainability vs. Unsustainability”, in Richard C. Dorf (ed), Technology, Humans and Society, forthcoming.



WORKING PAPERS

"Accounting for Soils: Towards an integrated Sustainability and Productivity Assessment for Soils", with with Benjamin Warr, INSEAD WP N° 2004/19/EPS/CMER

"Dematerialisation vs Growth: Is it possible to have our cadke and eat it?" with Benjamin Warr, INSEAD WP N° 2004/18/EPS/CMER

“Nitrogen Consumption in the United States”, with Febre Domene L. Alejandra, INSEAD No. 2000/19/EPS/CMER.

“Products as Service Carriers: Should We Kill the Messenger - or Send it Back?”, INSEAD No. 2000/36/EPS/CMER.

“Nitrogen’s Role in Industrial Systems”, with Febre Domene L. Alejandrra, INSEAD No. 2000/73/EPS/CMER, Revised Version of 2000/19/EPS/CMER.

“Minimizing Waste Emissions from the Built Environment: Towards the Zero Emissions House”, INSEAD No 1999/40/EPS/CMER.
CONFERENCE PAPERS

Strategic Planning Workshop (4-6 May 2000: London, UK). Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project.

International Conference on Sustainable Future of the Global System (24-26 May 2000: Tokyo, Japan). Panelist on a session on Global Outlooks and Trends.

May Forum of the International Committee of the Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management (26 May 2000: Tokyo, Japan). Industrial Metabolism and its Insights into Japan’s Techno-economy.

Biografía

Prof. Ayres holds a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Kings College, University of London; a MS in Physics from the University of Maryland and a BA, BS form the University of Chicago. He is an Adjunct Professor of Mineral Economics at Pennsylvania State University and visiting professor at Chalmers University Gotheburg. His former positions include among others that of Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and Deputy Leader of the Technology-Economy-Society Program, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. From 1994-1997 he was a member of the International Advisory Board to the Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Energie und Umwelt, Germany.

Contacto

Robert U. AYRES (USA)

Tel: (33) (0)1 60 72 40 11
Fax: (33) (0)1 60 74 55 00/01
E-mail: robert.ayres@insead.edu

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