Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Iskenderun Technical University, 31200, Iskenderun, Hatay, Turkey; Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, the Netherlands.
Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, the Netherlands.
J Environ Manage. 2019 Nov 15;250:109507. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109507. Epub 2019 Sep 12.
One of the concrete examples of industrial symbiosis development is eco-industrial parks, which improves resource efficiency and minimizes environmental impacts by adopting models for waste exchanges between industries. Despite past efforts, many industrial zones around the world are not yet considered as eco-industrial parks because of the low number (or total lack) of symbiotic relationships among industries. A promising strategy is to develop those existing industrial zones into eco-industrial parks. However, there is a lack of studies addressing how to assess environmental improvement in relation to network sustainability. This study demonstrates such an assessment approach using an integration of food web analysis and social network analysis. These two methods can assist in assessing differences in network configurations with respect to potential implementations of industrial symbiosis, and in analysing the resilience, redundancy, connectance, and cyclicity of eco-parks. The use of the methods is illustrated in a case study of an industrial zone in Turkey. Four potential future scenarios are proposed, including potential future co-location of companies in the industrial zone in order to foster industrial symbiotic network formation. These scenarios are compared with the current configuration. The results indicate the method's ability to assess the resilience of an industrial network. Moreover, the case shows an improvement of network sustainability and follows some sustainable properties of natural ecosystems as a result of implementing the industrial symbiosis.
工业共生发展的具体例子之一是生态工业园，它通过采用产业间废物交换模式来提高资源效率，最大限度地减少环境影响。尽管过去已经做了很多努力，但由于产业间共生关系的数量较少（或完全缺乏），世界上许多工业区仍未被视为生态工业园。一个有前途的策略是将这些现有的工业区发展成为生态工业园。然而，缺乏研究如何评估与网络可持续性相关的环境改善。本研究使用食物网分析和社会网络分析的整合来展示这种评估方法。这两种方法可以帮助评估网络配置的差异，以实现工业共生的潜在实施，并分析生态公园的弹性、冗余、连接度和循环性。该方法在土耳其一个工业区的案例研究中得到了说明。提出了四个潜在的未来情景，包括在工业区内潜在的未来公司共同选址，以促进工业共生网络的形成。这些情景与当前的配置进行了比较。结果表明，该方法能够评估工业网络的弹性。此外，该案例表明，由于实施工业共生，网络的可持续性得到了提高，并遵循了一些自然生态系统的可持续特性。
