Industrial Ecology Pathways to Sustainability in Östergötland

Tekniska Verken and Linköping University:Co-operation is a Learning Process

21 January 2011

Leo Baas University of Linköping,

Environmental Technology & Management

From Two Natural Systems to....:

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…..One natural symbiosis system: Can Industrial Ecology Mimick Nature?

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Industrial Ecology definition

Industrial ecology is described as:

An integrated system, in which the consumption of energy and materials is optimised and the effluents of one process serve as the raw material(s) or energy for another process

(Frosch & Gallopoulos, Scientific American:1989)

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Industrial Ecology: Interconnectedness of Physical & Social Systems

Physical Systems: Technology, Material and Energy Flows

interconnectedness

Social Systems: Individuals, Organisations, Culture,

Values, Institutions

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Industrial Symbiosis is seen as a process whereby materials, water, energy in the techno-sphere and informational, organizational and management flows at the institutional level between and among companies are investigated with the objective of developing and improving co-operative links between/among them

Industrial Symbiosis

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Circular Economy

The Circular Economy approach to resource-use efficiency integrates cleaner production and industrial ecology in a broader system encompassing industrial firms, networks or chains of firms, eco-industrial parks, and regional infrastructure to support resource optimization

Circular economy balances economic development with environmental and resources protection

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Social Embeddedness

• Human activities are embedded:

they are shaped by the context in which they occur

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Cognitive embeddedness Where do we look for, how actors make decisions

• The way in which individuals and organisations collect and use information, make sense of their environment

• Bounded rationality: Assumption of a rational actor model; however, individuals and organisations have limited capacities for information processing and decision-making

• Systems thinking: No organisation functions in complete isolation; Individuals have different strategies for problem solving

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Development strategies• The planned project approach: management by

industry, government or special organization: by-products sharing and links of utilities

• The uncovering resource links approach: detection of by-product synergy as illustration for further IS development

• The anchor tenant approach: links around a big company

• The co-siting approach: restructuring an industrial site with new companies and IS links

• The synthesis approach: learning from the approaches above

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Industrial Ecology Journals

• Journal of Cleaner Production, since 1993Special issues on Industrial Ecology since 1995,

published by Elsevier

• Journal of Industrial Ecology, since 1997Initiative Yale University, first volumes published by MIT Press, currently Wiley & Sons

• Progress in Industrial Ecology, since 2004, Inderscience publishers

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Agreement Tekniska Verken and Linköping University

• The long term Industrial Ecology Research Programme 2009 – 2019 will contribute to the establishment of the Östergötland region as a leading research, education, and knowledge dissemination centre with respect to clean technology, industrial symbiosis*, waste to energy, and bio fuel applications on a sound economic basis through the results of Ph.D. research and continuous evaluation of sustainability projects in practice(www.iei.liu.se/envtech)

*Industrial Symbiosis refers to application in industrial parks

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Industrial Ecology Conferences• Gordon Conferences Industrial Ecology, since

1998• International Society for Industrial Ecology

(ISIE), since 2001, with bi-annual meetings: Noordwijk, Ann Arbor, Stockholm, Toronto, Lisbon

• Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium, since 2004: New Haven, Stockholm, Birmingham, Toronto, New London, Kalundborg, (Kawasaki: Nov. 2010)

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Industrial Ecology Research Programme

Towards a 100% Renewable Resources

Östergötland

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The Industrial Ecology Research Programme works within the following research areas:

Regional Industrial Symbiosis

Renewable resources in Industrial Symbiosis

Industrial symbiosis and Large Technical Systems

Industrial Ecology Research Programme

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Resilience model for Environmental Technology and Management

Metabolism material and

energy

Social and business dynamics

Technical systems and infrastructure

Governance and institutions

Research field

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Discussion on the development of a research programme

Idea Fund provider

Holistic Draft proposal Total

- Designing Modified proposal - Implementing

- Expressed in Final proposal - Expressed in Value Business application

Detail Detail

Agreement

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Scope of research projects and their time frame

Scope of research projects

Time frame

Time period

Exploring S 0,3 – 0,5 year

Operational M 0,5 – 1 year

Strategic M – L 1 – 2 year

Fundamental L 1 – 4 year

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Planned Research Projects in 2010/2011Greenhouses: utilization of waste heat and CO2

Synergies for 1st generation bio-fuels

Landfill mining

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Ph.D. candidates, related to IERP

Saeid Hatefi Pour: Mapping Östergötland, Sustainable Norrköping

Carolina Ersson: Bio-fuels synergies

Per Frändegård: Landfill mining

Nils Johansson: Landfill mining

Santiago Mejia Durand: CleanTech and MegaCities

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Industrial Symbiosis Ph.D. course in April – September 2010

• Obligatory and optional readings of scientific articles and a Ph.D.-thesis:

1 – hour: article presentation + discussion

• Meeting internationally acknowledged researchers in industrial symbiosis: Marian Chertow, Noel Brings Jacobsen, Leo Baas, Anna Wolf

• Experiencing Industrial Symbiosis in practice in the region

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Levels of Industrial Ecology activities and Information Exchange

• Regional: Mapping resource flows, bio-fuel synergies, landfill mining, regional excellence centre

• National: Industrial Ecology in Sweden: a National Expert Conference (22 (?) March 2011)

• International: Academic visit Prof. Marian Chertow, Yale University (27-30 April, 2010)

European Industrial Symbiosis Researchers Workshop (26-28 August, 2010)

20th Greening of Industry Network Conference

(October 2012)

Presentations in China, Korea and México in 2010, in Brazil in 2011

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From regional efficiency to a sustainable industrial district from a

'system theory' perspective