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The Political-Industrial Ecology Initiative at Penn State aims to build a network of scholars interested in assessing and transforming the environmental impacts of industrial sectors. The Initiative will help to advance the emerging field of political-industrial ecology (PIE), which aims to embed “industrial ecosystems” within local, geographic places and assess their broader socioecological significance. The result of such inquiry is to develop solutions, guided by principles of justice and equity, for altering, reducing and transforming industrial society.