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The paper tackles a classical topic of location theory, as the Weber theory of industrial location within a modern framework of building construction and its consideration into the circular economy debate. Starting from a research project involving universities, construction and recycling enterprises and public bodies in Sardinia Island (Italy), the authors propose a model of industrial location that, starting from the assumption of the classical Weberian model, consider it both in a theoretical fashion and applying it to a real-world case study. The project of the new football stadium of Cagliari involves the demolition of the existing stadium, which will represent a source of ‘secondary’ raw materials for the realization of the new sport facility. The authors discuss about the ‘best’ locations for concrete factories, according to different scenarios, considering the insertion of a new ‘material source’ in the circular economy concept.
This study is supported by MEISAR (https://meisar.org/en/) Building materials and sustainable infrastructure - recycled aggregates - POR Sardinia FESR 2014/2020 - Priority axis I - “Scientific Research, Technological Development and Innovation” Action 1.1.4 Top-Down and RE-MINE - Restoration and rehabilitation of abandoned mining sites, funded by the Foundation of Sardinia (Grant CUP F72F16003160002).
The paper derives from the joint reflections of the three authors. However, Ginevra Balletto realized Sects. 1, 3.1, 4.2, 4.4 and 5. Giovanni Mei wrote Sects. 2 and 4.1. Giuseppe Borruso wrote Sects. 3.2 and 4.3.
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The companies are the Recycle by Quartucciu, the SMT of Sarroch, the Ecofrantumazioni of Olbia and the Ecoinerti of Iglesias
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I.e. in the case of data on quarries and their licenses the ‘Quarries Cadaster’, although quite outdated, dating back to 2007, has been checked and data crossed with existing licenses, verifying their locations by observing the regional orthoimages and satellites maps in Google Maps.
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Balletto, G., Borruso, G., Mei, G. (2019). Location Theory and Circular Economy. Demolition, Constructions and Spatial Organization of Firms – An Applied Model to Sardinia Region. The Case Study of the New Cagliari Stadium. In: Misra, S., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11621. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24302-9_38
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