Process analysis of eco-industrial park development – the case of Tianjin, China

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

“…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.…”

Supply Chain Configurations in the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Studies on the macro-level of cities [44][45][46], economic areas [47,48], and national and global industries, particularly logistics and waste [7,14,[49][50][51][52], were only included if they informed implementation on the meso-level, as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Other implementation studies focus on reviewing and informing policy [13,16,17,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67], specifically on product design for the CE [8,9,14,[64][65][66] as well as assessments of firms' [67,68], consumers' [69][70][71], and officials' [72] awareness of and attitudes towards the CE's concepts and its components.…”

“…Others [19,48] find that trust and relationship building are vital to enable the transition from conventional industrial parks to EIPs, in which local authorities can act as facilitators. Wang et al [25] follow this idea and investigate the development of a coordination network between local authorities to foster industrial symbiosis, finding that institutional capacities benefit firms to engage industrial symbiosis by promoting relational links across industry and government; Shi and Yu [24] and others [22,27,48] therefore propose the government as an enabler or facilitator to develop relationships between firms and thus EIPs. Zeng et al [6] expand the scope to include various institutional pressures and find that they improve circular performance of EIPs.…”

The greening of industrial property developments in South Africa

“…More specifically, given that rapid industrialization has been accompanied by environmental degradation, the concept is "being considered a possible way to overcome environmental damage and at the same time to improve industrial and community economic and social welfare and development" (Veiga & Magrini, 2009: 653). In recent years much interest surrounds the concept's application and the quest for eco-industrial parks in China (Lowe, 2003;Shi et al, 2012aShi et al, , 2012bBai et al, 2014;Tian et al, 2014;Yu et al, 2014). Behind the embrace and expansion of global interest in the concept of ecoindustrial parks is the perceived benefits for local communities of increased competitiveness, the generation of additional revenues, the creation of jobs, and advantages of reducing pressures on existing infrastructure, reduced pollution and use of energy from regenerated sources (Bugnar & Mester, 2013).…”

“…Indeed, Côté & Cohen-Rosenthal (1998) stress that one of unique characteristics of the experiments with eco-industrial parks is their differentiation. In terms of the nature of property developments, however, it is clear from the international experience that an important distinction must be drawn between eco-industrial park developments which involve building upon and transforming an existing industrial park or cluster on the one hand and of greenfield property developments of eco-industrial parks which are planned and developed from scratch on the other (Veiga & Magrini, 2009;Yu et al, 2014). There is consensus from what has been accomplished so far that most eco-industrial parks are "at an early stage of development" (Veiga & Magrini, 2009: 660).…”