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Improving Performance of Eco-Industrial Parks

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Industrial Ecology hypothesizes that networks of industries designed to be analogous to the structure and properties of food webs may approach a similarly sustainable and efficient state. Although ecology is the metaphor for designing Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs), prior research has shown that IEPs are inferior in performance compared to natural ecosystems. One EIP design approach is to enlarge EIPs by combining two or more synergistic networks to create a larger, and hopefully more successful, synergistic mega-network. An quantitative analysis using ecosystem metrics is presented in this paper in order to test the potential of this approach.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. CMMI-0600243, CBET-0967536 and CBET-1510531. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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    Bert Bras & Astrid Layton

  2. School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Marc Weissburg

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  1. Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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  2. Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Engg, Rm S1.04, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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Bras, B., Layton, A., Weissburg, M. (2016). Improving Performance of Eco-Industrial Parks. In: Setchi, R., Howlett, R., Liu, Y., Theobald, P. (eds) Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016. SDM 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32098-4_20

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