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Enabling industrial symbiosis through a web-based waste exchange.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
ISSN
0966-9671
Abstract
Industrial ecology is a new approach to production that entails redesigning and zoning industrial processes in order to recover or eliminate waste, thereby increasing profitability and competitiveness while reducing environ mental problems. Although the approach has its genesis in high-income industrial countries, the approach may offer solutions to many of the problems facing developing countries. However, its implementation requires addressing some issues about innovation and the dissemination and uptake of new management concepts and technologies. This paper describes an attempt to adapt an Internet-based market mechanism to support the preliminary stages of the development of an industrial ecosystem in a relatively poor country, namely Jamaica. The software was developed in Australia but had to be extensively adapted to the Jamaican environment via an iterative process of user-requirement capture. The paper describes the various stages required in the specification and establishment of an electronic web-based waste exchange in a relatively poor economy.
Language
en_US
Publisher
Greenleaf Publishing
Recommended Citation
Clayton, A., Muirhead, J., & Reichgelt, H. (2002). Enabling industrial symbiosis through a web-based waste exchange. Greener Management International, 40, 93-106.
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Comments
Citation only. Full-text article is available through licensed access provided by the publisher. Published in Greener Management International, 40, 93-106. Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided.