Morphogenesis of Industrial Symbiotic Networks

By Erika Dzajic Ursic

The study deals with Industrial Symbiosis (IS), a term used to describe a network of diverse organizations that make use of different by-products to improve their facility to achieve common goals, improve environmental conditions or improve business and technical processes. Industrial symbiosis is understood as a technological material as well as a social relationship between so-called social actors, which are involved in the exchange of secondary resources.

The author proposes a model for the evaluation of the possibilities to establish such industrial symbiosis with a study benchmark of seven industrial symbiotic examples used to build a qualitative multi-criteria decision model for the evaluation of the industrial symbiotic network model. With the data obtained from the best-known industrial symbiotic cases in the world, the author examines the importance of social actors' involvement in industrial symbiosis both in their industrial and non-industrial technological processes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631802005
• ISBN13: 9783631802007
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"