Evolution of industrial symbiosis in an eco-industrial park in China

Yu, Fei; Han, Feng; Cui, Zhaojie

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.10.058

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“…Several sources in the literature point at the importance of the regulatory framework, mainly as a source of potential barriers against the development of such strategies, or as the result of specific policy action to foster environmental sustainability [3,26,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. With regard to the regulation and stimuli, the literature stresses the need for coherence among the different measures in use [52,53], to avoid discouraging innovation initiatives.…”

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“…These are settings in which business organizations are concentrated on the basis of the possibilities to reuse resources among them in a circular way. The eco-industrial park is a specialization of industrial parks in which relationships between business organizations are sought to improve competitive advantage [42,43,51,56]. On one hand, such a strategy, when pursued for increased environmental sustainability, needs coherence, commitment, and a lack of contradictions by policymakers [47,57].…”

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“…Finally, regarding the establishment of inter-organisational symbiosis, the literature stresses the need for a mutual competitive advantage between the two subjects entering the symbiosis [56], which normally concerns the exchange of raw materials and by-products [43,51].…”

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A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy

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Abstract:The transition to a circular economy bodes well for a future of environmentally sustainable growth and economic development. The implications and advantages of a shift to a circular economy have been extensively demonstrated by the literature on the subject. What has not been sufficiently investigated is how this paradigm can be enabled through the inter-organisational cooperation among different business enterprises. In order to illustrate this point, in this paper we aim to contribute to the circular economy debate by describing and discussing such a meta-model of inter-organisational cooperation. The present study is therefore based on the analysis of three cases from an equal number of industries, from which we identified factors of potential impact for the stimulation of cooperation in a circular economy perspective. Last, but not least, we discuss the relations between the case studies and try to formulate all possible implications for both managers and research.

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“…The literature review showed that existing empirical studies on industrial symbiosis in China focused on large-scale national level industrial parks in the eastern coastal regions, such as in Suzhou, Tianjin, and Shandong [10][11][12][13][14]. Out of the 1568 national and provincial-level industrial parks across the country [15], a significant number of industrial parks are located in central and western China, and they are mainly provincial level ones rather than national level ones.…”

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Coordination of Industrial Symbiosis through Anchoring

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This paper aims to contribute to understanding the dynamics of industrial symbiosis. More specifically, we focus on the dynamics of anchoring as they can be observed in the Chinese context of eco-industrial development. We define anchoring as those activities that (typically local) actors perform to create local physical and institutional conditions conducive to the emergence and further development of industrial symbiosis in a specific regional industrial system. We argue that, in the study of industrial symbiosis dynamics, it is conceptually more useful to focus on anchoring as an activity, rather than anchor tenants as actors. Based on a systematic literature review, we distinguish two types of anchoring activities: institutional and physical. We analyze anchoring dynamics in the case of Qijiang Industrial Symbiosis (Chongqing Municipality) in China. We have identified the physical and institutional anchoring activities, the actors responsible for these activities, and how different anchoring activities build on each other over time. Our case study shows that the attempt to bring about industrial symbiosis in the Qijiang industrial park can be described in a richer way than just 'governmental planning'.

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“…It effectively promoted the improvement of industrial production technologies, equipment and production efficiency. Besides, the adoption of industrial symbiosis approach and eco-industrial park program has effectively promoted the collaboration between enterprises in improving their economic and environmental performance, such as water saving and management [38,39]. Therefore, the water consumption of China's TI was largely reduced.…”

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Decomposing the Decoupling of Water Consumption and Economic Growth in China’s Textile Industry

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Unprecedented economic achievement in China's textile industry (TI) has occurred along with rising water consumption. The goal of industrial sustainable development requires the decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption. This paper examines the relationship between water consumption and economic growth, and the internal influence mechanism of China's TI and its three sub-sectors: the manufacture of textiles (MT) sector, the Manufacture of Textile Wearing Apparel, Footwear, and Caps (MTWA) sector, and the manufacture of chemical fibers (MCF) sector. A decoupling analysis was performed and the Laspeyres decomposition method was applied to the period from 2001 to 2014. We showed that six of the fourteen years analyzed (2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2013) exhibited a strong decoupling effect and three of the fourteen years (2005, 2007, and 2010) exhibited a weak decoupling effect. Overall, China's TI experienced a good decoupling between economic growth and water consumption from 2002 to 2014. For the three sub-sectors, the MTWA sector experienced a more significant positive decoupling than the MT and MCF sectors. The decomposition results confirm that the industrial scale factor is the most important driving force of China's TI water consumption increase, while the water efficiency factor is the most important inhibiting force. The industrial structure adjustment does not significantly affect water consumption. The industrial scale and water use efficiency factors are also the main determinants of change in water consumption for the three sub-sectors.

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Evolution of industrial symbiosis in an eco-industrial park in China

Cited by 168 publications

References 24 publications

A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy

A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy

Coordination of Industrial Symbiosis through Anchoring

Decomposing the Decoupling of Water Consumption and Economic Growth in China’s Textile Industry

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