Evolution of Local Environmental Economic Associations: Industrial Symbiosis
Inna Blam1, Kamila Borsekova2, Katarina Petrikova2
1Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
2Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Keywords: industrial symbiosis, regional sustainable development, eco-industrial park, waste management
Abstract
Industrial symbiosis is a voluntary cooperation of enterprises that aims to reduce manufacturing costs by leveraging each other's wastes or by-products as raw materials and sharing resources: information, energy, water, etc. This paper investigates the spontaneous industrial networks based on the principles of industrial symbiosis in Denmark, Russia and Slovakia, which are currently on different stages of development. The identified cases contribute to the sustainable development of regions where they are localized.
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