The emerging role of eco-industrial development in the Asia Pacific: Towards national and regional green economies

• Main Author: Chiu, Anthony S.F.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Industrial ecology > Pacific Area; Industrialization > Pacific Area; Sustainable development > Pacific Area; Environmental Engineering; Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13124
• Institution: De La Salle University

There have been several eco-industrial development (EID) initiatives in Asia Pacific since 1997. These EID initiatives, adopting the industrial ecology (IE) concept have taken various approaches to sustainable development in their regions. Some have taken the form of eco-industrial estate; others have taken the structure of the city or town. The author has simplified these various approaches into a generic structure, and presented four developmental stages describing how these EID models advanced from lower stages of plainly environmental protection to higher stages of a green economy. Also, three categories of national/regional EID involvement are proposed in the study. It is argued that Asia Pacific economies that belong to different developmental stages need to assess their respective strengths in order to craft their competitive green economy strategies for the promising world market share.