Towards sustainable business parks: A literature review and a systemic model

Tellier, Mathilde Le; Berrah, Lamia; Stutz, Benoı̂t; Audy, Jean-François; Barnabé, Simon

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.145

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“…Overall, they found that a circular economy can contribute with greater or lesser intensity to all SDGs, either directly or indirectly. The strongest relationships were found to correspond to the targets of SDGs 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), 7 15 (Life on Land). These inferences provided an overview of the association between circular economy and the SDGs; however, further analysis is required to explore the relationships between sustainability and particular branches of circular economy, such as IS.…”

Section: Industrial Symbiosis and Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, the principles of IS crystallize in Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP), which consist of communities of companies located in a common area that seek to improve economic, environmental and social performance through collaboration in managing resources [14]. EIPs differ from other forms of cooperation such as industrial clusters, whose main focus is to gain economic benefits and, therefore, disregards other aspects of sustainability [15]. They also differ from industrial districts, which are more specific and mostly refer to co-located small and medium companies devoted to light manufacturing sectors of the economy [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Systemic Analysis of the Contributions of Co-Located Industrial Symbiosis to Achieve Sustainable Development in an Industrial Park in Northern Spain

Ruiz-Puente

Jato-Espino

2020

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Resource efficiency is a strategy with great potential to make progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since it can contribute to meeting a variety of economic, environmental and social targets. In this context, this investigation developed a systemic analysis of co-located Industrial Symbiosis (IS) synergies in an industrial park formed of four companies. To this end, public data showing that the main activity in this park concerned materials, water and steam flows were supported with short visits to the companies for verification purposes. Then, the effects of nine exchange and twelve share synergies were analysed at different scales according to their impacts on sustainable development. The changes caused by these synergies in the flows in the industrial park enabled saving more than 10 k tonnes of raw materials and waste disposal and almost 10 Mm3 of raw water per year, as well as six auxiliary service systems. In the end, these figures might be translated into more than 200 kt CO2 eq. and EUR 6M saved per year, which in turn corresponds to 0.05% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region in which the park is located. In terms of sustainable development, these modifications were translated into contributions to nine SDGs and 14 of their specific targets, proving the domino effect associated with the application of IS policies by governments and public entities.

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Section: Industrial Symbiosis and Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systemic Analysis of the Contributions of Co-Located Industrial Symbiosis to Achieve Sustainable Development in an Industrial Park in Northern Spain

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Jato-Espino

2020

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“…Addressing this type of problem is considered relevant since economic, political, and social stability is highly important for the availability of essential food inputs [10]. In this regard, Le Tellier et al [21] specified that companies and social groups are capable of achieving significant impacts in the dimensions mentioned above. In this sense, various efforts have been made at both a theoretical and practical level to support these actors [22].…”

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Systemic Design for Food Self-Sufficiency in Urban Areas

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This article adopts a systemic approach to address the problem of the operationalization of relationships between actors conducive to food self-sufficiency in urban areas. Through the use of Social Network Analysis (SNA), the literature on urban agriculture was analyzed, detecting eight key trends and topic areas. This information was used to design a generic recursive organizational structure with the identification of the key roles and functions for management and governance in the multi-level and multi-stakeholder relationships of a sustainable urban self-sufficient food production system, inspired by the principles of complexity management and organizational cybernetics. Methodologically, this is the first application that combines the exploratory capability of SNA and the recursive structure of the Viable System Model (VSM) to propose applicable organizational structures in any urban area, suggesting a new route for the study and application of systemic thinking in the development of urban agriculture schemes. However, due to the conceptual nature of this work, this study opens a discussion on how we can rethink interactions to seek continuous adaptation in food self-sufficiency, provide tools that foster inclusion, and adapt to every context to support the relevant actors and academics in urban agriculture.

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“…With the goal of spurring the development of sustainable industrial parks, an archetype called mixed‐use ecopark (MUE) was introduced (Le Tellier, Berrah, Stutz, Audy, & Barnabé, 2019). This emerging archetype attempts to provide an answer to the shortcomings faced by mixed industrial parks in Europe and North America (Lambert & Boons, 2002).…”

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Using MACBETH for the performance expression of a mixed‐use ecopark

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The deployment, control, and continuous improvement of a sustainable industrial park are complex and cross‐sector endeavours involving many different aspects. Generally, control of a sustainable industrial park comprises a range of actions that are undertaken to achieve its sustainability that is deployed into fundamental objectives. Achieving these objectives requires the definition, recurring redefinition, and continuous control of an action plan. The decision maker in charge of the industrial park needs pieces of information on the impact of the action plan before and during its execution. The performance expressions (also called utilities), are evolving during the execution of the action plan and rely on multiple criteria since a sustainable industrial park is a complex system with numerous objectives. In this paper, an innovative use of multi‐criteria decision analysis is presented. MACBETH is used to express the evolution of the performance of a sustainable industrial park, either for the purpose of prediction or verification. A case study is presented with the expression of the performance of a Canadian sustainable industrial park.

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Towards sustainable business parks: A literature review and a systemic model

Cited by 30 publications

References 43 publications

Systemic Analysis of the Contributions of Co-Located Industrial Symbiosis to Achieve Sustainable Development in an Industrial Park in Northern Spain

Systemic Analysis of the Contributions of Co-Located Industrial Symbiosis to Achieve Sustainable Development in an Industrial Park in Northern Spain

Systemic Design for Food Self-Sufficiency in Urban Areas

Using MACBETH for the performance expression of a mixed‐use ecopark

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