Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium August 15th 2008

Dear Colleagues:

Please hold the evening of Friday, August 15 to the morning of Sunday, August 17, 2008 for the next Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium. The Fifth Annual Symposium will be sponsored by the Devens Enterprise Commission in Massachusetts, USA at the former Army base now redeveloped as an eco-industrial center. Peter Lowitt, Director of the Devens Enterprise Center, will chair the event and the theme for this year is "The Role of Planning in Industrial Symbiosis."

The Symposium will have a primarily social event Friday night, August 15, a day of programming Saturday, August 16 on the theme "The Role of Planning in Industrial Symbiosis" with sessions concluding on the morning of Sunday August 17. The Symposium coincides with the opening of the Gordon Conference on Industrial Ecology which will be held at Colby-Sawyer College in the New London, NH from August 17-22, 2008.

For more information on the Gordon Conference please visit: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=industeco

The Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium is targeted to researchers in this subfield of industrial ecology. The first symposium was sponsored by Yale University in 2004 (proceedings in PDF at http://environment.yale.edu/publication/series/industrial_ecology/) It has since been sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers in Stockholm in 2005, the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme and Advantage West Midlands in Birmingham, UK in 2006 and Dalhousie University School for Resource and Environmental Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia last year.

A detailed program will be sent in April 2008. Please forward this mail to any colleagues who might be interested in the event as researchers in industrial symbiosis. If you have ideas while the plans are forming, please feel free to contact Peter Lowitt at MDFAPLowitt@Massdevelopment.com or me.

Hold the date: 15-17 August 2008

Best regards,
The 2008 Planning Committee
Chair,
Peter Lowitt, Mass Development
Marian Chertow, Yale University
Stephen Levine, Tufts University
Neil Angus, Mass Development
Anthony Sarkis, Antioch University New England
Melanie Quigley, Yale University

Marian Chertow, Ph.DAssociate Professor and Director, Industrial Environmental Management ProgramYale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies205 Prospect StreetNew Haven, Connecticut 06511203-432-6197 - phone203-432-5556 - faxmarian.chertow@yale.edu - e-mail

Eco Towns: Viable projects, or white elephant

Dear All

The ETTC and ISNet would like to invite you to a joint presentation and Middlehaven site visit, to be held at the Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough on Wednesday 14th May, commencing at 10am. The subject matter will be ‘Eco Towns: Viable projects, or white elephant?’ Please find the agenda and attendance form attached.

The Environment Technology Transfer Club (ETTC) and the Industrial Symbiosis Network (ISNet), are both part of the Clean Environment Management Centre (CLEMANCE) based at the University of Teesside in the Tees Valley. Both the ETTC and ISNet are networks created principally for the discussion and dissemination of sustainable initiatives within industry (ETTC & ISNet) and academia (ISNet) in the UK and abroad.

The Environmental Technology Transfer Club has over 130 members from industry and the public sector who meet every two months to discuss topical issues such as environmental management systems, landfill tax, project funding, composting and so on.

The Industrial Symbiosis Network is a multidisciplinary research network funded by the EPSRC, bringing together universities, industry and policy makers, to provide a focus on the development of the concept of Industrial Symbiosis. Members include 28 universities, and 30 companies (Industrial and otherwise) all over the world.

For both networks, membership is free and open to all academics, industrialists, policy makers and anyone else with an interest in sustainable initiatives.

If you would like to attend please reply electronically to clemance@tees.ac.uk by 07TH May to allow time for catering arrangements to be made. I look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Kind Regards
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Clean Environment Management Centre (CLEMANCE)
School of Science and Technology
University of Teesside
Middlesbrough
Tees Valley
TS1 3BA

14th AISDRC Conference in Delhi - Track 17

14th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference
New Delhi, India, September 21-23, 2008
http://www.14aisdrc2008.com/


Track 17: Government Policy, Corporate Strategy and Industrial Ecology/Symbiosis in Action

Chaired by: Dr. Peter Strachan (p.a.strachan@rgu.ac.uk) and Mr. Abhishek Agarwal (abhi_mgmt@hotmail.co.uk), The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom


Overview

The last 15 years have seen an ever increasing interest in Industrial Ecology (IE)/Industrial Symbiosis (IS) by policy makers, industry leaders and academics alike. This has led to the implementation of IE/IS programmes in many countries.

In attempting to encourage the adoption of IE/IS principles such planned initiatives by Government have been supported by the use of a range of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments, with many reported corporate and environmental success stories to date. This provides a rich area of research, especially in examining the performance or success of such policy instruments, and further the corporate strategies and programmes utilised by the international business community in contributing to broader Sustainable Development aspirations.

This Track seeks to attract high quality papers which aim to be both critical and reflective of recent IE/IS policy initiatives, and corporate strategies and action. This is important for those of us who are keen to see IE/IS as a meaningful concept, rather than merely a public relations exercise for Government and Corporate Actors. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome, either in full or developmental form, in the following areas:

The Business and IE/IS Interface;
Critique of Government Policy and Programmes e.g. The UK National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) and other Initiatives;
The Performance of New Environmental Policy Instruments e.g. Regulation, Market-based Instruments, and Voluntary Codes of Conduct;
Tools and Techniques of IE/IS e.g. MFA, LCA, SFA, EMS;
The Impact of IE/IS Programmes on Corporate and Environmental Performance e.g Regional, Industry Sector and Corporate Cases;

For further information please contact:
Dr. Peter Strachan p.a.strachan@rgu.ac.uk
Mr. Abhishek Agarwal abhi_mgmt@hotmail.co.uk

Publication
Papers (accommodating the discussion at the conference) will be considered for publication in Business Strategy and the Environment. Dr. Peter Strachan and Mr Abhishek Agarwal will Guest Edit the special issue.