Possibility of developing low-carbon industries through urban symbiosis in Asian cities

Fujii, Minoru; Fujita, Tsuyoshi; Dong, Liang; Lu, Chengpeng; Geng, Yong; Behera, Shishir Kumar; Park, Hung‐Suck; Chiu, Anthony S.F.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.027

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“…Finally, the scientific literature on circular cities is varied and constantly growing. The concepts of eco-cities [48,49], (low-to-) zero carbon cities [12,50,51], zero waste cities [52], resource-efficient cities [53][54][55], regenerative cities [4,[56][57][58][59], resilient cities [60][61][62][63][64], sharing cities [65][66][67][68], and smart cities [15,[69][70][71][72][73], as well as food and food waste management in city-regions [58,[74][75][76][77], can be all linked and integrated in the broader concept of the "circular city".…”

Section: General Studies On the Circular Urban Economymentioning

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Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework

2019

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The circular city is emerging as new concept and form of practice in sustainable urban development. This is a response to the complex and pressing challenges of urbanization, as highlighted in the New Urban Agenda (NUA). The concept of a “circular city” or “circular city-region” derives from the circular economy model applied in the spatial territorial dimension. It can be associated with the concept of a “self-sustainable” regenerative city, as stated in paragraph n.71 of the NUA. This paper aims to develop an extensive form of “screening” of circular economy actions in emerging circular cities, focusing on eight European historic port cities self-defined as “circular”. The analysis is carried out as a review of circular economy actions in the selected cities, and specifically aims to identify the key areas of implementation in which the investments in the circular economy are more oriented, as well as to analyze the spatial implications of the reuse of buildings and sites, proposing a set of criteria and indicators for ex-ante and ex-post evaluations and monitoring of circular cities. Results show that the built environment (including cultural heritage), energy and mobility, waste management, water management, industrial production (including plastics, textiles, and industry 4.0 and circular design), agri-food, and citizens and communities can be adopted as strategic areas of implementation of the circular city model in historic cities, highlighting a lack of indicators in some sectors and identifying a possible framework for “closed” urban metabolism evaluation from a life-cycle perspective, focusing on evaluation criteria and indicators in the (historic) built environment.

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Section: General Studies On the Circular Urban Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework

2019

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“…The emerging Industrial Symbiosis is such a strong measure for forming a Circular Economy which is aiming to enhance the competitive advantages of industries by resource recycling through a systemic design for exchanging byproducts, water, waste, and heat between factories 5) . It has been widely applied in developing Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs) and revealed a substantial contribution in environmental improvements and industrial developments [6][7][8][9][10] . During the practice, many factors are found critical to the implementation effect, including technical and economic feasibility, information sharing and cooperation between key players, community awareness, and environmental regulations 11) .…”

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Potential of Waste Heat Exchange Considering Industrial Location Changes: A Case of Shinchi-Soma Region in Fukushima, Japan

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Urban sustainable development has been one of the most important issues in the global society, wherein industrial sector plays a critical role who not only contributes in mitigating global climate change but also promoting continuous economic growth so as to deal with the challenges of ageing and depopulation. The emerging methodology named Industrial Symbiosis (IS) provides a two-pronged approach to enhance the competitive advantages of products through exchanging byproducts and heat between nearby industries. However, geographic proximity and supply-demand matching are two critical factors affecting the benefits from implementing IS. This study aims to develop an assessment method to analyze the potential of waste heat exchange in an industrial park considering location changes of factories. The Shinchi-Soma region of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is selected as case area where was suffered from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and now is in revitalization so that positive industrial policy and land use adjustment is practicable. Results indicate that the preference on inducing high heat demand factories for using more waste heat can indeed enlarge the CO2 emission reduction but job creation is quite limited, while locating employee intensive factories can create more jobs but limit the CO2 emission reduction. Consequently, local policies for industrial development should carefully adapt with this trade-off. It is expected to conduct a wide-area intergovernmental cooperation on optimal industrial locations for gaining double benefit in economic growth and environmental improvements.

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“…In terms of the research theme, 25.7% of all articles dealt with eco-engineering as a main subject area, particularly those from Asia, and specifically China. Examples include industrial symbiosis in Asian cities (Fujii et al, 2016) and industrial emission abatement (Wang, 2014). Other common themes include issues of general modelling and monitoring for supporting low-carbon city planning and policy responses (Huisingh et al, 2015;Tan et al, 2017;Calderon & Keirstead, 2012;Yin et al, 2012) and integrated perspectives of land use, transport and built environment (Ness & Xing, 2017;Lehmann, 2012).…”

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Possibility of developing low-carbon industries through urban symbiosis in Asian cities

Cited by 71 publications

References 19 publications

Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework

Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework

Potential of Waste Heat Exchange Considering Industrial Location Changes: A Case of Shinchi-Soma Region in Fukushima, Japan

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