Environmental Management for Industrial Zones in Vietnam

Dieu, Tran Thi My; Phuong, Phung Thuy; Buuren, J.C.L. van; Nguyen, Tu Van

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“…Furthermore, the lack of support by macro‐institutions to foster meso level institutional capacity undermines the influence of industrial zones over policy and/or regulation that could enable the adoption of water efficiency technologies. Despite the multiple branches of government and different levels of decision‐making in Vietnam, any form of deliberation related to policy and/or regulatory reform still relies on the tacit support of the central government (Dieu et al., 2020). These results indicate that the development of institutional capacities are not only functional—in terms of raising awareness, coordinating, and organizing industrial ecology and symbiosis (see Mortensen & Kørnøv, 2019; Pham et al., 2022)—but also fundamentally political.…”

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Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam

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Leeuwen

2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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This article uses an institutional capacity framework to assess the interplay between the macro level institutional environment in the form of the centralized Vietnamese state, and the meso level institutional capacity of three different industrial zones to develop technological water use efficiency strategies. Our results show that the relational, knowledge, and mobilization capacities of these industrial zones are constrained by the centralized nature of the Vietnamese state. These industrial zones also show a limited capacity to instigate reform of macro level regulatory institutions. However, we also find instances where industrial zones do demonstrate capacity for implementing water use efficiency technologies because of their capacity to coordinate relations with client firms, universities, and provincial industrial zone authorities. If the institutional capacities of industrial zones are better supported, we argue there remains room for them to influence the macro institutional context to support innovation in water use efficiency. Our results indicate the value of institutional capacity as a framework for assessing processes of technical innovation for industrial ecology, especially in the context of centralized states.

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