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Eco-industrial Strategies - Unleashing Synergy between Economic Development and the Environment (Hardcover)
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Eco-industrial Strategies - Unleashing Synergy between Economic Development and the Environment (Hardcover)
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Old-style manufacturing, embodied in industrial parks that litter
the landscape, may soon become dinosaurs of industrial development.
These "Jurassic Parks" of the past will be replaced by new
eco-industrial parks (EIPs) that link manufacturers more closely
together into an industrial ecosystem for business and
environmental excellence. Companies have always depended on a
larger ecology of suppliers, customers, geography and market to be
successful, but a popular mythology was that each company was an
island. Abandoning this fantasy by consciously integrating into a
larger industrial ecology is smart business that draws on the
overall system of interactions to nourish corporate success-and the
environment. Eco-industrial development, born from the realisation
that the places where we work waste too much and unnecessarily
pollute the land, air, and water, simply stated, demands a better
way of working. From eco-parks-most famously at Kalundborg in
Denmark-to virtual networks, this progressive perspective on
economic development is taking shape in communities across the
United States and around the world. Eco-industrial Strategies is
edited by Ed Cohen-Rosenthal, a pioneer in the field of industrial
ecology, whose untimely passing early in 2002 has left this book as
a legacy to his passion and commitment to improving both the
environment and places in which people work. The book explores the
key issues involved in eco-industrial development and identifies
the stakeholders and their roles in such projects. In addition, it
offers a compendium of eco-industrial development case studies.
While an increasing number of handbooks and manuals focus on
eco-industrial development, no other book containing process
analysis, a breakdown of stakeholder responsibility, and case study
assessment exists. What sets this work apart is the pooling
together of resources and knowledge from a wide array of sources
within the eco-industrial field and the framing of the concept from
multiple angles. Eco-industrial Strategies aims to accomplish a
two-step "inform and empower" process. First, it familiarises
readers with eco-industrial development, its innovative proclivity
and applicability to diverse circumstances. Second, it provides the
fundamental tools and motivational creativity to implement
independent eco-industrial projects. The introductory chapters of
this book present several overarching concepts and perspectives of
the field, which pay particular attention to the technological,
economic and social elements. The next section focuses on the role
of the various stakeholders involved in eco-industrial development.
Each chapter sets out to answer various questions relating to the
stakeholders' place in the system, specifically: what are the
stakeholders' particular interests, in what ways can they
participate in the process, and how do they relate to other actors
and stakeholders? These chapters also respond to questions
regarding the relationship between stakeholders and eco-industrial
development. Chiefly, they trace the flow of benefits, and various
other impacts and repercussions, among and between the stakeholders
and the development project. Since eco-industrial development
involves countless groups and individuals, this book focuses on
five distinct and comprehensive categories: namely, central
government, local government, surrounding community, development
community, and energy resources. The third section outlines several
matters related to conceptualisation, design, operation and
assessment of eco-industrial projects. Concentrating on the core
legal, environmental, management, financial, real estate and
evaluative aspects, the book presents the critical components of
each issue and also provides an understanding of the unique
attributes eco-industrial development brings to the equation. The
case-study portion of this book provides vignettes of actual work
in progress. Each chapter details the key characteristics of the
effort and the process undertaken in developing the eco-industrial
project. The studies focus primarily on issues considered in the
preceding sections, such as project funding, stakeholder engagement
and environmental stewardship. In addition, they recount
achievements, threats to success, ways obstacles were overcome, and
details on the project's future. Eco-industrial Strategies
showcases development projects from around the world, including
Asia, Canada, Denmark and the United States, situated in a variety
of settings: for example, army bases, industrial parks and virtual
networks. This eclectic mix of development structures and contexts
is indicative of the diversity apparent in eco-industrial projects
overall and allows readers to glean functional and constructive
lessons adaptable to their particular circumstances. Accordingly,
this section stands as a testament to the widespread applicability
of eco-industrial development, and as inspiration for practitioners
in both traditional and unconventional settings. An idea and
practice still in its infancy, eco-industrial development will
undergo many evolutions beyond what this collaborative work is able
to capture. As a document of the concept's earliest theorists,
Eco-industrial Strategies provides current and future readership
with an understanding of eco-industrial development's foundations,
its beginnings and its aspirations. Most excitingly, policy-makers,
industry professionals, community developers, grass-roots
activists, and all other readers yearning for a better way to work
and live, will experience a glimpse of the thoughts, concerns,
ambitions, technological insight, communities and economies that
embody eco-industrial development.
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