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Eco-industrial networking for sustainable development: review of issues and development strategies

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Energy and Resources use efficiency in industrial sector holds the key in achieving sustainable development. Networking among industries to use by-product and waste product streams as input sources to the other industrial units, which is termed as Eco-industrial Networking holds the key for Eco-industrial development which is a building block of sustainable development of cities. Based on the Korean eco-industrial park (EIP) experience, the present paper reviews the key drivers to such a networking, identifies what are the conditions and strategies required at different levels, and barriers for their implementation. The paper further contextualizes the same to Asian region by linking EIPs to urban systems and that evolves into Eco-city concepts. Ability of such eco-efficiency imbibing network towards decarbonizing the development paths is also discussed.

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  1. The EIP project was initially with KNCPC (Korean National Cleaner Production Center) whose ownership was subsequently transferred to KICOX.

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  1. Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, 40065, India

    Sudhakar Yedla

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, EIP Center, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 680,749, South Korea

    Hung-Suck Park

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Yedla, S., Park, HS. Eco-industrial networking for sustainable development: review of issues and development strategies. Clean Techn Environ Policy 19, 391–402 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-016-1224-x

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