91
Van Ha et al. 2009 ) and even to broader concepts such as Japan’s “resourcecirculating society” (Morioka et al. 2011 ) and China ’s “ecological civilization” (Hu
2012 ).
3 Part II: Bounding Industrial Symbiosis in Time
and Space—Distinctions and Differences
As a truly multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary focus of study, industrial symbiosis
easily becomes far-fl ung and sometimes misunderstood. The diverse communities
of industrial symbiosis, from those who pursue scholarship to those creating policy
to those facing the reality of business development, do not often overlap in ideas and
audiences, as most people see just a part (Fig. 5.2 ). Some “big data” colleagues
complain that examining industrial symbiosis is too much work because the information sources related to material and energy fl ows reveal only part of a multifaceted story that cannot be told without some human intervention to sort it out (Nikolic
2013, July 1, Personal communication). This section emphasizes a few of the ongoing questions raised and distinctions made as industrial symbiosis has progressed
through time and space.
Ecology
Economics
Policy &
Management
Community
Ecology
Regional
Economics
Network
Theory
Industrial
Symbiosis
Industrial Ecology
Transaction
Costs
Organizational
Theory
Institutional
Theory
Material Flow
Analysis
Life Cycle
Assessment
Complex
Adaptive
Systems
Environmental
Accounting
Policy
Analysis
Systems
Dynamics
Thermodynamics
Theoretical bases for industrial symbiosis research
Engineering
Natural
Sciences
Social
Sciences
Engineering
Sciences
Fig. 5.2 Industrial symbiosis examined through many research fi elds (Source: Ashton and
Chertow, Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, updated 2015)
5 Scholarship and Practice in Industrial Symbiosis: 1989–2014
Van Ha et al. 2009 ) and even to broader concepts such as Japan’s “resourcecirculating society” (Morioka et al. 2011 ) and China ’s “ecological civilization” (Hu
2012 ).
3 Part II: Bounding Industrial Symbiosis in Time
and Space—Distinctions and Differences
As a truly multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary focus of study, industrial symbiosis
easily becomes far-fl ung and sometimes misunderstood. The diverse communities
of industrial symbiosis, from those who pursue scholarship to those creating policy
to those facing the reality of business development, do not often overlap in ideas and
audiences, as most people see just a part (Fig. 5.2 ). Some “big data” colleagues
complain that examining industrial symbiosis is too much work because the information sources related to material and energy fl ows reveal only part of a multifaceted story that cannot be told without some human intervention to sort it out (Nikolic
2013, July 1, Personal communication). This section emphasizes a few of the ongoing questions raised and distinctions made as industrial symbiosis has progressed
through time and space.
Ecology
Economics
Policy &
Management
Community
Ecology
Regional
Economics
Network
Theory
Industrial
Symbiosis
Industrial Ecology
Transaction
Costs
Organizational
Theory
Institutional
Theory
Material Flow
Analysis
Life Cycle
Assessment
Complex
Adaptive
Systems
Environmental
Accounting
Policy
Analysis
Systems
Dynamics
Thermodynamics
Theoretical bases for industrial symbiosis research
Engineering
Natural
Sciences
Social
Sciences
Engineering
Sciences
Fig. 5.2 Industrial symbiosis examined through many research fi elds (Source: Ashton and
Chertow, Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, updated 2015)
5 Scholarship and Practice in Industrial Symbiosis: 1989–2014