Nestedness of eco‐industrial networks: Exploring linkage distribution to promote sustainable industrial growth

Brehm, Colton; Layton, Astrid

doi:10.1111/jiec.13057

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“…The research of Brehm and Layton (2021) focused on the metric of nestedness, which is an ecological approach that resorts to the placement of linkages between nodes in a network to maximize network cyclicity for a given number of links. This measure provides numerous benefits for the design and study of EINs (Eco-Industrial networks), including maturity independence, size normalization, and strong statistical documentation of ecological systems with a high degree of mutualism.…”

Section: Cluster : Eco-industrial Parksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial symbiosis and agri-food system: Themes, links, and relationships

Hamam

Spina

Raimondo

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Industrial symbiosis is an eco-innovative system concept that is based on a circular economy and industrial ecology ideas. This process comprises the movement of materials, energy, and skills across enterprises located within eco-industrial parks, and strives to provide economic, environmental, and social competitive advantages for all the involved parties. Considering that the agri-food system creates a vast quantity of by-products along the supply chain, it is a sector that has huge potential within material and energy recovery systems and fits well into eco-industrial parks. The current study is a literature review that aims to evaluate the interest exhibited so far by scientific research in the topic of industrial symbiosis in the agri-food sector and to highlight the primary analytical techniques that have been used for this topic. Using the paradigm of multiple correspondence analysis, a content analysis was conducted from which the major themes of the researched phenomena emerged. The results indicate that the topic areas are unrelated and somewhat distant from each other. The analyzed case studies have revealed that the authors had neglected the communicative and collaborative elements among stakeholders, and instead focused on the potential use of some tools and approaches. Furthermore, it has been hypothesized that the hiding of information within a supply chain prevents industrial symbiosis procedures from being implemented. This research suggests the necessity of creating communication and cooperation platforms among stakeholders, which would promote the introduction of new techniques and tools for the development of circular production systems.

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Section: Cluster : Eco-industrial Parksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial symbiosis and agri-food system: Themes, links, and relationships

Hamam

Spina

Raimondo

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…In 2019, Alves et al studied the nestedness of global production network with intercountry input-output data and discussed about the contribution of various countries and industries to nestedness, as well as the influence of nested structure in global economy [13]. In 2020, by comparing various network indicators of predatory networks and ecoindustrial park networks, Colton et al found a positive correlation between the nestedness and periodicity of eco-industrial park networks, thus providing specific suggestions for the industrial layout and infrastructure construction in the park [14].…”

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Nestedness-Based Measurement of Evolutionarily Stable Equilibrium of Global Production System

Ren¹,

Han²,

Xing³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Nested structure is a structural feature that is conducive to system stability formed by the co-evolution of species in mutualistic ecosystems, and reflects the ability of ecosystem stability to be restored to a stable state again after being destroyed. The co-opetition relationship and value flow between industrial sectors in the global value chain are similar to the mutualistic ecosystem, and the pattern of the global economic system is always changing in dynamic equilibrium. Nestedness theory is used in this article to define the generalist and specialist sectors in the global value chain to analyze the changes in the global supply pattern. Then we study the mechanism of the global economic system to reach a stable equilibrium and the role of different sectors in the steady of the economic system, so as to provide countermeasures for enhancing the stability of the global economic system. At the end of the article, the domestic trade network, export trade network and import trade network of each country are extracted, and an econometric model is designed to analyze how the microstructure of the production system affects a country’s macroeconomic performance, thereby deriving the conclusion that the stability of the international trade network is crucial to a country's economic development.

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“…ENA metrics can then be calculated using T. In this section, the ENA modeling process and the DoSO metric are elaborated, focusing on the notional SoS architectures used in this study. Interested readers may refer to previous work, which has adapted ENA for applications in industrial networks, [66][67][68][69][70][71] power grids, 72 water distribution networks, 73,74 and supply chains. 75 Consider the architecture presented in Figure 3(C).…”

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Ecology‐inspired resilient and affordable system of systems using degree of system order

Chatterjee

Malak

Layton

2021

Systems Engineering

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An optimal trade-off between resilience (the ability to survive and recover from disruptions) and affordability is highly desirable in System of Systems (SoS) architectures. However, it is difficult to design SoS architectures for these goals as existing resilience evaluation methods require detailed disruption models that are not readily available in the early stages of design. Biological ecosystems (nature's resilient SoS) achieve these goals through a unique balance of efficient and redundant interactions in their architectures-measured using the metric Degree of System Order (DoSO).This research tests if this ecological architecting principle and the DoSO metric are useful for designing resilient and affordable SoS. The resilience versus affordability tradespace of a large number of notional SoS architectures is investigated using the DoSO metric. Results indicate that the majority of Pareto optimal SoS architectures, under various disruptions, lie in the ecologically-identified favorable DoSO range. Further, SoS architectures within this DoSO range were found to have better resilience and affordability attributes, in general, than the architectures outside it. DoSO evaluation does not require knowledge of disruption scenarios and is the first network architecture metric to consider resilience versus affordability trade-offs, making it a valuable addition to the SoS engineering toolset.

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Nestedness of eco‐industrial networks: Exploring linkage distribution to promote sustainable industrial growth

Cited by 13 publications

References 78 publications

Industrial symbiosis and agri-food system: Themes, links, and relationships

Industrial symbiosis and agri-food system: Themes, links, and relationships

Nestedness-Based Measurement of Evolutionarily Stable Equilibrium of Global Production System

Ecology‐inspired resilient and affordable system of systems using degree of system order

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