Industrial Ecology and Regional Development: Eco-Industrial Development as Cluster Policy

[Development, health-industrial complex and industrial policy].

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

Industrial Ecology Putting Sustainable Development to Work

Industrial Policy for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that we are in the midst of a change in the techno-economic paradigm. What we perceive as new challenges in a globalized world economy are in fact symptoms of the search for a new paradigm. There is some probability that a key feature of a new paradigm will be ecological sustainability. Therefore, a policy that tries to shape the structures...

challenges and opportunities of industrial ecology development in iran

in developing countries such as iran it was after economic crises and the increase in price of energy carriers and primary resources that industrial ecology was taken into consideration as a method in industrial states. 941 industrial states in iran have a high potential in creating material and energy flow networks with the industrial ecology approach to prevent massive energy loss and valuabl...

Industrial ecology in the strategic sustainable development model: strategic applications of industrial ecology

In a recent article of this journal, Robert et al. [Journal of Cleaner Production 10 (2002) 197] define five hierarchical and interdependent levels for a systems approach for strategic sustainable development (SSD) to move toward the desired outcome, the state of sustainability. This paper evaluates the concept of industrial ecology (IE) by considering its application and use in terms of the st...