Embedding eco-industrialism into local economies: the search for sustainable business and policy paradigms

Wells, Peter Erskine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4376-7178 and Bristow, Gillian Irene ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5714-8247 2007. Embedding eco-industrialism into local economies: the search for sustainable business and policy paradigms. Progress in Industrial Ecology 4 (3/4) , pp. 205-218.

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Abstract

This paper seeks to integrate several diverse literatures as the basis of an innovative approach that embeds eco-industrialism in local economies. Emergent business models provide the micro-economic basis of embedded eco-industrialism, while the eco-industrial park provides potential foundations for regenerative eco-localism. The paper then seeks insights offered by critical theorists and alternative economic discourses in order to argue that industrial ecology, if conceived of as being within the framework of alternative discourses, could do much to bring greater understanding of development trajectories that would allow places to escape the tyranny of uncontrollable economic forces. In so doing, the paper makes a contribution to the search for business and spatial policy models that encourage a better 'fit' between businesses and their local and regional environment, where environment is seen in its broadest sense.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems At Cardiff (CAMSAC) Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
ISSN:	1476-8917
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/29355

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