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Eco-Industrial Parks

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Synonyms

By-product reuse; Eco-industrial network; Industrial ecosystem; Industrial park; Industrial symbiosis

Definition

In this entry, the Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) is defined as a business community of manufacturing and service businesses seeking enhanced environmental and economic performance through collaboration in managing environmental and resource issues, including for instance energy, water, and materials. An EIP seeks collective benefits that outweigh the sum of individual benefits that each participating organization would realize by optimizing its own performance only. Usually EIP refers to the formation of interfirm industrial symbiosis. Symbiosis includes the idea of biomimicry, a similar means to that which takes place in nature when different species exchange energy, information, or material in a synergistic fashion, benefiting all of those involved. For instance, industrial applications intentionally mimic the material flows of biological ecosystems in an industrial...

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Nillo Halonen

  2. Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Marko Seppänen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Life Science, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. Centre for Work Related Studies, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Dept of Industrial Management, Center for Innovation and Technology Research, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Ulla Saari

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Halonen, N., Seppänen, M. (2019). Eco-Industrial Parks. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_5-1

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