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Face às evidências da gestação de uma crise ambiental, diversos atores têm pontuado a importância das estruturas industriais para o estabelecimento de estratégias de desenvolvimento favoráveis à conservação da qualidade dos serviços ecossistêmicos. Nesse particular, a corrente conhecida como Ecologia Industrial advoga a reestruturação da indústria sob o formato de um sistema fechado, baseado em relações simbióticas e intrinsecamente ajustado às tolerâncias e características dos sistemas naturais: o Ecossistema Industrial. Este trabalho investigou como os Ecossistemas Industriais constituem um tipo de eco-inovação coerente com a construção de uma Economia Verde. Verificou-se que os Ecossistemas Industriais oferecem oportunidades de investimento e emprego em consonância com as necessidades de conservação do capital natural. Ademais, eles fornecem fortes evidências de que os esforços inovativos na direção de tecnologias ambientalmente seguras podem induzir ganhos econômicos e ambientais, constituindo uma estratégia viável no direcionamento de uma recuperação econômica verde.

Eco-cities have attracted international attention from governments, corporations, academics and other actors seeking to use sustainable urban planning to reduce urban environmental impacts. China has devoted significant political will and economic resources to the development of new-build eco-city projects, reflecting the Chinese government's goals to build a 'harmonious society' in which environmental sustainability and social stability are mutually reinforcing. We critically analyse the case of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin eco-city to demonstrate that the eco-city's ecologically modernizing visions of eco-urbanism construct a protective environment for its residents that constrains broader consideration of social sustainability. Through analysis of the marketing and presentation of specific domestic and other spaces of the eco-city, we examine the application of ecologically modernizing construction and technology to the design of the city. We argue that the eco-city is discursively constructed as ecologically beneficial for its inhabitants rather than for the broader socio-environmental landscape. Our analysis of residential spaces in Tianjin eco-city introduces the question of what 'eco' means when considering the construction of eco-urban environments for the city's residents.

The spelling of the words _eco-logy and _eco-nomics in the title is intended to emphasize that both words originated from the Greek word oikos, which means household, house, or family. Despite their common origin, never have two disciplines diverged so dramatically. Economic growth, aided by economic globalization, has markedly diminished natural capital, from which all other forms of capital are derived. Economic growth (without protecting the biospheric life support system) seems to be the primary goal of human society. In reality, the human economy is a subset of the biospheric life support system, which regenerates the resources that are the raw materials of the economic system. Yet political leaders continually state that the biospheric life support system cannot be protected if the possibility of doing so would adversely affect economic growth. However, growth of material goods and population cannot continue indefinitely without severe consequences. At present, many ecologists delay discussing biotic impoverishments with economists, fearing that such candor will _turn them off. The contextual framework of economists and ecologists is far from congruent, although the survival of human society, and even of the human species, depends on it.

La presente es una investigación desarrollada en la Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez, núcleo Palo Verde, bajo la modalidad de estudios abiertos o Toparquía, basado principalmente en un modelo empírico-vivencial. Su propósito fue diseñar una propuesta para el desarrollo de la economía turística comunal eco-socialismo, en el Consejo Comunal La Concepción del "B" ubicada en la Parroquia La Vega, Caracas. Se desarrolló primeramente un diagnóstico comunal que permitió identificar las potencialidades y debilidades del sector para poder elaborar la propuesta. La metodología fue cualitativa, con un enfoque hermenéutico- fenomenológico y para la obtención de los datos se empleó la técnica de la observación directa, un estudio de campo, el instrumento aplicado a los informantes claves e integrantes del consejo comunal, fue la entrevista guiada. Se concluyó que los espacios del Parque ecológico Itagua posee gran potencial y variedad de oportunidades para el desarrollo pleno y el fortalecimiento del turismo.