IS/EID/EIN Track at the Sustainable Development Conference, Hong Kong 2010‏‏‏‏‏ - Update January 2010

The deadline for abstract submission for the track 'Sustainable communities with - not despite - industry: industrial symbiosis & eco-industrial development / networking' at the International Sustainable Development Research Conference Hong Kong, 30 May – 1 June, 2010 has been extended to 31st January 2010.

Please submit the abstract using the online system at http://www.kadinst.hku.hk/sdconf10/abstract_submission.html and please email a copy of the abstract to my email at a.agarwal@rgu.ac.uk

Papers submitted in the track will be considered for publication in a special issue of a reputed sustainable development journal.

Further information available at http://www.abhibiz.co.uk/2009/12/iseidein-track-at-sustainable.html

Kind regards

Abhi

IS/EID/EIN Track at the Sustainable Development Conference, Hong Kong 2010‏‏‏‏‏

Call for Papers: Industrial symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and eco-industrial networking and regional sustainability

The 16th Annual
International Sustainable Development Research Conference
Hong Kong, 30 May – 1 June, 2010
www.kadinst.hku.hk/sdconf10/indexin.html

“A New Agenda for Global Governance”

Track: Sustainable communities with - not despite - industry: industrial symbiosis & eco-industrial development / networking

Chaired by:
Abhishek Agarwal, Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, UK: a.agarwal@rgu.ac.uk
Ms Tracy Casavant, President, Eco-Industrial Solutions, Canada: tracy@ecoindustrial.ca
Professor Yong Un Ban, Chungbuk National University, Korea: byubyu@cbu.ac.kr
Professor Geng Yong, Chair Professor on Circular Economy and Industrial Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: gengyong@iae.ac.cn

Overview

The last two decades have seen an ever increasing interest in Industrial Symbiosis (IS) / Eco-industrial Development (EID) / Eco-industrial Networking (EIN) by policy makers, industry leaders and academics alike. This has led to the implementation of IS programmes and development of eco-industrial parks / networks in many countries.

In attempting to encourage the adoption of industrial ecology (IE) 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. In addition to government policy and programmes, multi-stakeholder efforts have played a key role in the development of IS/EID/EIN initiatives. This provides a rich area of research, especially in examining the performance of such policy instruments, cross-sectoral partnerships and governance around IS/EID/EIN initiatives, and associated 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 IS/EID/EIN projects and policy initiatives around the globe. This is important for those of us who are keen to see IE/IS as a meaningful concept in the pursuit of sustainability rather than merely a public relations exercise for Government, Facilitators and Corporate Actors. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome, either in full or developmental form, in the following areas:
• Government Policy and Programmes to promote IS/EID/EIN:
- The Performance of New Environmental Policy Instruments e.g. Regulation, Market-based Instruments, and Voluntary Codes of Conduct
- Government involvement in promoting IS/EID/EIN initiatives
- Government-supported education and outreach
- Development of Performance Evaluation Indicators for Eco-industrial Parks/Networks
• Regional multi-stakeholder efforts to promote industrial sustainability
- Cross-sectoral partnerships and governance for IS/EID/EIN
- Regional government and other stakeholders’ role in the development of IS/EID/EIN initiatives
- Role of facilitators in IS/EID/EIN initiatives and success of the facilitation process
- Planning and development of eco-industrial parks / networks; land use planning
- Transformation of existing industrial parks into eco-industrial parks
- Transferability of IS/EID/EIN successful practices from one context (place) to another
• Cases from industry sectors / corporate actors
- IS/EID/EIN success/failure (case studies)
- The impact of IS/EID/EIN initiatives on Corporate / Environmental Performance and regional sustainability
- Reducing ecological / carbon / water footprint using IS/EID/EIN
• Tools and Techniques of IE/IS e.g. internet based resource / by-products matching system
• Evaluation tools and techniques for IS/EID/EIN projects, including environmental impact assessment and life cycle assessment

When submitting your abstract, please categorise it as TRACK “Sustainable communities with - not despite - industry: industrial symbiosis & eco-industrial development / networking” or THEME "Industrial symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and eco-industrial networking and regional sustainability"

Detailed information and link about how to submit an abstract is available at:
http://www.kadinst.hku.hk/sdconf10/abstract_submission.html

In addition to submitting abstract online, please send a copy of abstract by email to a.agarwal@rgu.ac.uk

Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 31, 2010

For further information please contact:
Abhishek Agarwal, Email: a.agarwal@rgu.ac.uk

Publication

Papers (accommodating the discussion at the conference) will be considered for publication in a special issue of a reputed journal.

Recently Published Articles

You may find some of the articles published recently in a special issue of the journal "Regional Studies" useful:

Editorial: Industrial Symbiosis - An Environmental Perspective on Regional Development pp. 1295-1298(4) Authors: Deutz, Pauline; Lyons, Donald

Industrial Symbiosis in Puerto Rico: Environmentally Related Agglomeration Economies pp. 1299-1312(14) Authors: Chertow, Marian; Ashton, Weslynne; Espinosa, Juan

Industrial Ecology and Regional Development: Eco-Industrial Development as Cluster Policy pp. 1313-1328(16) Authors: Deutz, Pauline; Gibbs, David

The Humanistic Side of Eco-Industrial Parks: Champions and the Role of Trust pp. 1329-1342(14) Authors: Hewes, Anne; Lyons, Donald

Regards

Abhi

Call for Papers: AISDRC 2009, Netherlands; Track: Industrial symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and eco-industrial networking and regional sustainability

15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research
Conference July 5-8, 2009, Utrecht, Netherlands

“Taking up the Global Challenge: Analysing the implementation of
innovations and governance for Sustainable Development”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Track nr 4C: Industrial symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and eco-industrial networking and regional sustainability

Pauline Deutz (University of Hull, UK: p.deutz@hull.ac.uk)
Donald Lyons (University of North Texas, USA: dlyons@unt.edu)
Sally Randles (University of Manchester, UK: sally.randles@manchester.ac.uk)
Abhishek Agarwal (Robert Gordon University, UK: a.agarwal@rgu.ac.uk)

Industrial Symbiosis draws its conceptual foundation from the ecological metaphor of biological symbiosis, where unrelated organisms can find mutual benefit through the exchange of by -products. That is, one organism’s waste can be another’s resource. Networks of companies engaging in industrial symbiosis can be distributed across a city or region or co -located in an eco-industrial park. Industrial symbiosis offers potential environmental and economic efficiencies that have attracted policy interest across the world, both as economic development and regional sustainability initiatives. Whilst de novo eco -industrial park policy initiatives world -wide have struggled to establish significant by-product exchange networks, self-organized kernels of local and regional networks have been far more successful, leading industrial symbiosis proponents to reflect on the relative merits of planned versus more self -organized approaches.

Given the potential for industrial symbiosis to contribute to regional sustainability, the difficulties in realising that potential are frustrating. The concept is in danger of being dismissed by policy makers and academics as an inspired but impractical, and being left to industry to exploit to the extent that it is economically viable. However, if our goal is regional sustainability, then industrial symbiosis in whatever form becomes a means to an end, not the goal in and of itself.

This session aims to critically appraise Industrial Symbiosis as a tool for regional sustainability and to position the concept within ongoing policy developments. For example, given that industrial symbiosis arose as a resource conservation practice, how does the concept relate to policy frameworks increasingly dominated by strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Furthermore, under what circumstances does Industrial Symbiosis have a role to play in regional sustainability, how can the most appropriate form for a given setting be determined, and how pro -active should the state be in promoting Industrial Symbiosis ?

Important questions for further research include:

 Given the potential public good from Industrial Symbiosis what should be the role of the state in its promotion? What form of policies would effectively engage business in Industrial Symbiosis practices, and how would they vary according to the context or particular places?

 Are the lessons from successful self -organized Industrial Symbiosis kernels transferable nationally and/or internationally?

 What is the role of the region in the development of Industrial Symbiosis?

 What are the implications of international commodity flows for regional sustainable development and regional Industrial Symbiosis networks?

 Should the scope of Industrial Symbiosis be broadened to incorporate post consumer and industrial waste?

 What would be the role for the existing materials recycling and recovery industries within an economy where by -product exchange were increasingly the norm?

 How can the energy cascade component of Industrial Symbiosis be promoted as part of broader policies aimed at carbon emissions reductions?

 Should Industrial Symbiosis focus more on energy cascade exchanges in light of the current attention to carbon emissions?

Please see the conference website for more information and details of how to submit an abstract.

Abstract deadline: 1st January, 2009