The variety of successful and unsuccessful eco-industrial parks (EIPs) have evoked a discussion on “how to intervene in the process of transforming an industrial park to an eco-industrial park”. This study presents a process analysis approach that enables analysts to trace and structure the key activities that influence changes in an EIP system. This approach rests on five key activities that a...

Industrial sector is one of the indispensable contributors in global warming. Even if the occurrence of ecoindustrial parks (EIPs) seems to be a good improvement in saving ecological crises, there is still a lack of definitional clarity and in-depth researches on low-carbon industrial parks. In order to reveal the processes of carbon metabolism in a low-carbon high-tech industrial park, we sele...

Industry case studies are required to assess the suitability of a software technology to the industrial environment. The use of experimental studies in the development of software technologies provides a reliable knowledge basis and helps determine the best situations to use the technology, reducing the uncertainties in its adoption by the software industry. Therefore, this paper presents two c...

Chemical industry is the fundamental strategic industry in national economy and one of pillar industries in China. A wealth of chemical industrial parks has been built one after another in many places, where lots of chemical enterprises are established. In the normal operation of those enterprises, their raw materials or products manufactured, transported and stored are usually featured by flam...

Eco-industrial parks (EIPs) combine the concepts and principles of industrial ecology (IE) symbiosis (IS) to enable environmentally-friendly manufacturing capacity. The current reality is that many EIPs are developed from ageing (IPs). However, how such EIP transformation projects managed by diverse public private stakeholders largely unknown. This study summarises results a systematic literatu...

Global high-tech manufacturers are mainly located in newly industrialized countries, raising concerns about adverse health consequences from industrial pollution for people living nearby. We investigated the ecological association between respiratory mortality and the development of Taiwan's high-tech manufacturing, taking into account industrialization and socioeconomic development, for 19 cit...