Towards a Biologically-inspired Urban-industrial Ecosystem

Morris, Zackery B.; Weissburg, Marc J.; Bras, Bert

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.055

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“…Urban ecosystems refer to the built environment and infrastructure within which circular energy and material flows occur, and which consist of non-hierarchically related actors, such as utilities, local and city government, transportation authorities, service providers, and consumer-citizen residents. Theoretically, although many of the insights have been derived from the energy and material flow characteristics of industrial ecology (Bai, 2016;Decker et al, 2000;Morris, Weissburg, & Bras, 2018), these are transposed to the perhaps more complex urban environment. Urban ecosystems in CE settings are dominated by humans and focus on the inflow of energy, capital, information, and people, and not only consider how they can support the sustainable production of goods and services, but also consider the support of urban amenities, such as societal activities, quality infrastructure, and the physical environment.…”

Section: Flow Of Materials: Industrial and Urban Ecosystemsmentioning

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Circular economy ecosystems: a typology, definitions, and implications

Aarikka‐Stenroos¹,

Ritala²,

Thomas³

2021

Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency

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Section: Flow Of Materials: Industrial and Urban Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular economy ecosystems: a typology, definitions, and implications

Aarikka‐Stenroos¹,

Ritala²,

Thomas³

2021

Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency

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“…Cyclicity helps understanding contrariety between the natural and industrial systems (Layton et al, 2013). Cyclicity can be either 0 (no internal cycling), 1 (weak internal cycling) or greater than 1 (strong internal cycling) (Fath and Halnes, 2007;Morris et al, 2018). This is illustrated in Figure 2.…”

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

Genç

Capelleveen

Erdiş

et al. 2019

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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“…Establishment of a mature industrial ecosystem enables symbiosis, mutualism, and regeneration of industrial elements to maximize the economic and social values [47,48]. Industrial development is the result of collective effects of entire industrial ecosystem [46]. Competition among regional economies is a competition for industrial ecology.…”

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“…Liaoning Province, located in the old industrial region of Northeast China, is rich in natural resources but with a medium economic development level in China. Its economy has been dominated by resource-based industries for a long time, and the development of alternative industries was slow [46]. Except for Shenyang and Dalian, the difference in economic development among other cities was relatively small; moreover, the ability to adjust and reorganize the city's industrial ecosystem was limited and lagged by low ecological construction.…”

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Synergistic Evaluation and Constraint Factor Analysis on Urban Industrial Ecosystems of Traditional Industrial Area in China

Liu

et al. 2020

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Industrial ecology is an advanced form and ideal model of modern industrial development, in which the industrial ecosystem is the core. Based on the PSR model, this paper builds a comprehensive evaluation index system for urban industrial ecosystem development and selects 14 prefecture-level cities in Liaoning Province of the traditional industrial area in Northeastern China as cases to calculate the development level of its industrial ecosystem during 2000–2018 using an improved Topsis method and then to conduct a spatial visualization analysis. Finally, based on the “stress-state-response” subsystem, this paper diagnoses the constraints for industrial ecosystem development, which can provide a reference basis for decision-making in industrial ecology of traditional industrial area represented by those in Northeast China. The results show the following: (1) From 2000 to 2018, the industrial ecology of the 14 cities in Liaoning Province was at a medium level. Except for Shenyang and Dalian with the rapid development, the difference of industrial ecosystem development for other cities was relatively small. (2) From 2000 to 2018, the industrial ecosystem development of each city was in a status of “either increasing, or decreasing, or fluctuating,” which generally raised first and then decreased. Regarding spatial difference, the development exhibited a “center-periphery” pattern, with Shenyang and Dalian as the “dual-core” that were increasingly strengthened with significantly high-level industrial ecology. (3) At system level, PSR constraint grades for the industrial ecosystem development in the 14 cities of Liaoning Province were different. Constraint grades in the pressure subsystem, the state subsystem, and the response subsystem for the industrial ecosystem of Liaoning were 45.73%, 20.01%, and 34.34%, respectively, indicating that the lack of human response to the ecological environment and the pressure of human activities on the ecological environment during the industrial economy development were the main constraints affecting the process of industrial ecology in these cities. (4) Due to the differences in geographical environments, economic bases, industrial structures, and local development contexts, the major constraint factors of industrial ecosystem development in different cities are significantly different and complicated; however, there are five factors that are generally considered as major constraint factors in all cities, i.e., regional GDP, number of labor force employed in the secondary industrial sector, gross investment in fixed assets, amount of industrial sulfur dioxide removal, and production value from “three-wastes” comprehensive utilization. At last, this paper puts forward some recommendations and suggestions for providing scientific support for industrial ecosystem construction in the traditional industrial area of Northeastern China.

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Towards a Biologically-inspired Urban-industrial Ecosystem

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Circular economy ecosystems: a typology, definitions, and implications

Circular economy ecosystems: a typology, definitions, and implications

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

Synergistic Evaluation and Constraint Factor Analysis on Urban Industrial Ecosystems of Traditional Industrial Area in China

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