Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a collaborative environmental action whereby firms share or
exchange by-products, materials, energy, or waste as a way to economically reduce …

The global economy will face significant challenges over the next few decades. On the one
hand, it must meet the needs of 7 billion consumers (growing to 9 billion by 2050), including …

With the depleting resources and climate change tipping us over the edge, what we urgently
require is a rapid and revolutionary transformation-a circular economy (CE). The CE is …

Industrial symbiosis examines cooperative management of resource flows through networks
of businesses known in the literature as industrial ecosystems. These industrial ecosystems …

Since 1989, efforts to understand the nature of interfirm resource sharing in the form of
industrial symbiosis and to replicate in a deliberate way what was largely self‐organizing in …

As a subdiscipline of industrial ecology, industrial symbiosis is concerned with resource
optimization among colocated companies. The industrial symbiosis complex in Kalundborg …

Japan's Eco-Town Program spearheaded in Japan the integration of Industrial Symbiosis
and Urban Symbiosis, seeking to maximise the economic and environmental benefit from …

Currently cities consume 60–80% of natural resources globally. They produce 50% of global
waste and 75% of green-house gas emissions. The UN estimates that 66% of the world's …

This article seeks to advance the understanding of the relationship between industrial
ecology (IE) and business model innovation for sustainability as a means and driver of new …

Resource sharing among co-located firms referenced in the industrial ecology literature as
“industrial symbiosis” engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to …