Social network analysis on industrial symbiosis: A case of Gujiao eco-industrial park

Song, Xiaoqian; Geng, Yong; Dong, Huijuan; Chen, Wei

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.058

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“…These companies are able to attract and anchor a network of companies, not only in terms of the supply of materials but also the reuse of waste. There are some examples of such cases reported in the literature, such as a power plant in Honolulu in the US [162], mining firms in Gujiao, China [163], and a pulp and paper mill in Kouvola, Finland [164].…”

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The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

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Industrial symbiosis, which is characterised mainly by the reuse of waste from one company as raw material by another, has been applied worldwide with recognised environmental, economic, and social benefits. However, the potential for industrial symbiosis is not exhausted in existing cases, and there is still a wide range of opportunities for its application. Through a comprehensive literature review, this article aims to compile and analyse studies that focus on potential industrial symbiosis in real contexts, to highlight the margin of optimisation that is not being used. The cases reported in the publications identified here were characterised and analysed according to geographic location, type of economic activity, waste/by-products, main benefits, and the methods employed in the studies. From this analysis, we conclude that there is great potential for applications involving industrial symbiosis throughout the world, and especially in Europe, corresponding to 53% of the total cases analysed. Manufacturing stood out as the sector with the highest potential for establishing symbiosis relationships, and the most common types of waste streams in potential networks were organic, plastic and rubber, wood, and metallic materials. This article also discusses the main drivers and barriers to realising the potential of industrial symbiosis. The diversity of industries, geographical proximity, facilitating entities and legislation, plans, and policies are shown to be the main drivers.

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“…A plant with high BC has impact and control on the exchange of wastes through an industrial network (Song et al, 2018). When calculating the betweenness centrality of a node k, a normalization can be performed without a loss of precision by dividing through by the number of pairs of nodes not including k, so that BCk ∈ [0, 1].…”

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“…Social network analysis (SNA) is suggested as one of the evaluation methodologies that can capture improvements on network sustainability with indicators characterized by the network configuration (Vázquez et al, 2018). SNA is a tool that can help to identify key actors in networks and is one of the effective methods to analyse social relationships in industrial networks to develop actions that can strengthen resilience in the network (Domenech and Davies, 2009;Song et al, 2018). For example, SNA is effectively used as a method to analyse ISNs with respect to relationships between participant companies's managers (Ashton, 2008), relationships among companies's goals and indicators (Sebestyén et al, 2019) relationships among tenant firms (Song et al, 2018), and to compare exchanges of products, by-products, and wastes among tenant plants (Zhang et al, 2013).…”

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A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks

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Capelleveen

Erdiş

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Journal of Environmental Management

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One of the concrete examples of industrial symbiosis development is eco-industrial parks, which improves resource efficiency and minimizes environmental impacts by adopting models for waste exchanges between industries. Despite past efforts, many industrial zones around the world are not yet considered as eco-industrial parks because of the low number (or total lack) of symbiotic relationships among industries. A promising strategy is to develop those existing industrial zones into eco-industrial parks. However, there is a lack of studies addressing how to assess the environmental improvement in relation to network sustainability. This study demonstrates such an assessment approach using an integration of food web analysis and social network analysis. These two methods can assist in assessing differences in network configurations with respect to potential implementations of industrial symbiosis, and in analysing the resilience, redundancy, connectance, and cyclicity of eco-parks. The use of the methods is illustrated in a case study of an industrial zone in Turkey. Four potential future scenarios are proposed including potential future co-location of companies in the industrial zone in order to foster industrial symbiotic network formation. These scenarios are compared with the current configuration. The results indicate the method's ability to assess the resilience of an industrial network. Moreover, the case shows an improvement of network sustainability and follows some sustainable properties of natural ecosystems as a result of implementing the industrial symbiosis.

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“…Therefore, information exchange is crucial to identify IS business matches and potentials (Heeres et al 2004;Ismail 2014). So, the interand cross-company information flows can be enabled by an information platform (Sakr et al 2011;Isenmann 2013;Song et al 2018). One of the essential technology-enabled factors is the establishment of an information platform, which provides an integrated analysis tool for the IP itself in order to add the functions of performance monitoring, social modules supporting trust and community building, and systematic approaches to identify possible IS activities and to evaluate them from an economic, social and ecological perspective (Lütje et al 2018;Lütje et al 2019a).…”

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Requirements Engineering for an Industrial Symbiosis Tool for Industrial Parks Covering System Analysis, Transformation Simulation and Goal Setting

Lütje

Wohlgemuth

2020

Administrative Sciences

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Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a collaborative cross-sectoral approach to connect the resource supply and demand of various industries in order to optimize the resource use through exchange of materials, energy, water and human resources across different companies, while generating ecological, technical, social and economic benefits. One of the main goals of IS is the set-up of advanced circular/cascading systems, in which the energy and material flows are prolonged for multiple utilization within industrial systems in order to increase resource productivity and efficiency, while reducing the environmental load. Many Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools have been developed to facilitate IS, but they predominantly focus on the as-is analysis of the IS system, and do not consider the development of a common desired target vision or corresponding possible future scenarios as well as conceivable transformation paths from the actual to the defined (sustainability) target state. This gap shall be addressed in this paper, presenting the software requirements engineering results for a holistic IT-supported IS tool covering system analysis, transformation simulation and goal-setting. This new approach goes beyond system analysis and includes the use of expert systems, system dynamics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, which turn the IT-supported IS tool to be developed into a comprehensive and holistic instrument with which future scenarios and transformation paths can be simulated.

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Social network analysis on industrial symbiosis: A case of Gujiao eco-industrial park

Cited by 108 publications

References 41 publications

The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks

Requirements Engineering for an Industrial Symbiosis Tool for Industrial Parks Covering System Analysis, Transformation Simulation and Goal Setting

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