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This chapter describes a planning application designed in EMDS to evaluate land areas for their suitability to industrial park siting. The search for sustainable development approaches to park siting and for improving future viability of existing parks necessitated a structured decision-making process, which took into account all the phases of development, and anticipated uses of the neighboring land and resources. This chapter analyzes key factors in siting, and proposes a multi-criteria decision tool that is useful to considering the viability of present and future industrial areas, and their integration with their surroundings. The inherently spatial characteristics of our planning problem necessitated the use of an application development tool like EMDS to assist us in planning. EMDS was an appropriate platform for developing this application and for assessing the relative suitability of different land areas to siting. Our application was developed for a 646.2 km2 district in the Cantabria region of northern Spain. We specified and integrated the sustainability criteria and the resulting maps clearly identified suitable zones for industrial park siting. The tool we developed is also extensible to evaluating existing industrial parks and opportunities for retrofitting.
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An eco-industrial park (EIP) is an industrial park in which businesses cooperate with each other and with the local community in an attempt to reduce waste and pollution, efficiently share resources (such as information, materials, water, energy, infrastructure, and natural resources), and help achieve sustainable development, with the intention of increasing economic gains and improving environmental quality. An EIP may also be planned, designed, and built in such a way that it makes it easier for businesses to co-operate, and that results in a more financially sound, environmentally friendly project for the developer (Lowe 2001).
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Ruiz Puente, M.C. (2014). Planning for Urban Growth and Sustainable Industrial Development. In: Reynolds, K., Hessburg, P., Bourgeron, P. (eds) Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32000-2_11
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