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Industrial Symbiosis, Resilience and Sustainable Development in the Post-COVID-19 Era

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 6576

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Tai-Shan Hu

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Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
Interests: urban and regional planning; industrial analysis & planning; knowledge industry & urban development
Dr. An-Ting Cheng

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Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei 116, Taiwan
Interests: industrial policy; economic resilience; spatial planning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Industrial development has always had a significant impact on economic prosperity. As a part of sustainability, its importance is not less than that of the environment or society. On the premise of not harming economic growth, industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate entities in a collective approach in creating a competitive advantage involving the physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and by-products (Chertow, 2000). This concept has been discussed with eco-industrial parks for a long time (Lawal et al., 2021; Genc et al., 2019; Roberts, 2004), and contributes to an increase in sustainability with environmental, economic and social benefits (Neves et al., 2020).

However, the steady-state sustainability models might be too simplistic for a better understanding of the dynamic, adaptive behavior of complex systems and their resilience in the face of disruptions (Fiksel, 2006). This situation has been even more obvious in recent years, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the international market. There have been exciting debates on the resilience of regional development (Brada et al., 2021; Gong et al., 2020), and more and more scholars are investigating sustainability through industrial resilience (Negri et al., 2021; D’Adamo & Lupi, 2021).

Industrial development in the Post-COVID-19 era might necessitate interdisciplinary research on symbiosis, resilience and sustainability, and bring about a modern paradigm for spatial plans and industrial land use policies for academics and practitioners. Thus, this Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews taking the interdisciplinary challenge of broadening these two key disciplines. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

  1. In the Post-COVID-19 era, what industrial issues may threaten sustainability?
  2. How do researchers explain the challenges to industrial development from significant global events, such as the Asian financial crisis, subprime mortgage crisis and COVID-19?
  3. Is industrial symbiosis affected by COVID-19? And how is it affected?
  4. How do researchers improve industrial symbiosis from the perspective of resilience in the scope of sustainability?
  5. What lessons can be learned from the different performances of industrial and economic resilience?
  6. What is supposed to be the contemporary method for planning and industrial policies corresponding to the Post-COVID-19 era?
  7. How do researchers advance the resilience of industrial parks feasibly and sustainably?

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

References

  1. Brada, J. C., Gajewski, P., & Kutan, A. M. (2021). Economic resiliency and recovery, lessons from the financial crisis for the COVID-19 pandemic: A regional perspective from Central and Eastern Europe. International Review of Financial Analysis, 74, 101658.
  2. Chertow, M. R. (2000). Industrial symbiosis: literature and taxonomy. Annual review of energy and the environment, 25(1), 313-337.
  3. D’Adamo, I., & Lupi, G. (2021). Sustainability and resilience after COVID-19: A circular premium in the fashion industry. Sustainability, 13(4), 1861.
  4. Fiksel, J. (2006). Sustainability and resilience: toward a systems approach. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 2(2), 14-21.
  5. Genc, O., van Capelleveen, G., Erdis, E., Yildiz, O., & Yazan, D. M. (2019). A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks. Journal of environmental management, 250, 109507.
  6. Gong, H., Hassink, R., Tan, J., & Huang, D. (2020). Regional resilience in times of a pandemic crisis: The case of COVID‐19 in China. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 111(3), 497-512.
  7. Juergensen, J., Guimón, J., & Narula, R. (2020). European SMEs amidst the COVID-19 crisis: assessing impact and policy responses. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 47(3), 499-510.
  8. Lawal, M., Alwi, S. R. W., Manan, Z. A., & Ho, W. S. (2021). Industrial symbiosis tools—A review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 280, 124327.
  9. Negri, M., Cagno, E., Colicchia, C., & Sarkis, J. (2021). Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(7), 2858-2886.
  10. Neves, A., Godina, R., Azevedo, S. G., & Matias, J. C. (2020). A comprehensive review of industrial symbiosis. Journal of cleaner production, 247, 119113.
  11. Roberts, B. H. (2004). The application of industrial ecology principles and planning guidelines for the development of eco-industrial parks: an Australian case study. Journal of cleaner production, 12(8-10), 997-1010.

Prof. Dr. Tai-Shan Hu
Dr. An-Ting Cheng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • industrial symbiosis
  • industrial resilience
  • economic resilience
  • sustainability
  • industrial policy
  • industrial planning

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Spatial Concentration in Relation to Industrial Resilience
by An-Ting Cheng
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3546; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043546 - 15 Feb 2023
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The resilience of industry has caught much attention since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the literature argues that spatial concentration is beneficial to industrial development, but few reports discuss its impact on industrial survival from a long-term perspective, namely resilience. [...] Read more.
The resilience of industry has caught much attention since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the literature argues that spatial concentration is beneficial to industrial development, but few reports discuss its impact on industrial survival from a long-term perspective, namely resilience. Therefore, this study tries to answer whether spatial patterns impact the long-term survival performance of the industry through investigating the longevity of production sites. We take the semiconductor industry in the Hsinchu area, Taiwan as a case study and hypothesize that the survival period of production sites in clustered areas is longer than that in non-clustered areas. After conducting the research, it was found that the survival period of production sites in clustered areas is not always longer than non-clustered areas. Our results show that only larger clusters and those with higher degrees of clustering might have advantages toward longer survival, rather than the number of average-sized clusters. Our research pioneers in the field of sustainability by bridging spatial studies and industrial resilience theories. As it explores the resilience of an influential industry in the world, its outputs provide new suggestions for future industrial planning, resource distribution and regional development. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Symbiosis, Resilience and Sustainable Development in the Post-COVID-19 Era)
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A Study on the Economic Resilience of Industrial Parks
by Yun-Hsuan Lee, Li-Ling Kao, Wen-Hsiang Liu and Jen-Te Pai
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2462; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032462 - 30 Jan 2023
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The development of globalization has brought about obvious differences in the resilience of different regions against economic crises. Regional economic resilience refers to the ability of a region’s economy to resist shocks when faced with external disturbances or to break away from its [...] Read more.
The development of globalization has brought about obvious differences in the resilience of different regions against economic crises. Regional economic resilience refers to the ability of a region’s economy to resist shocks when faced with external disturbances or to break away from its existing growth model in favor of a better path, Resilience represents the region’s adaptability, innovation, and sustainability. This paper describes an empirical analysis on the 60 designated industrial park developments under the Industrial Development Bureau in Taiwan. Over a period of short-term disturbances, the industrial parks are analyzed from four aspects: industrial structure, regional development foundation, enterprise competitiveness and labor conditions, and government governance and policy systems. Through discriminant analysis, we analyze the characteristics of factors that mainly affect the economic resilience of 60 industrial parks faced with shocks such as the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, the five-day work week in 2016, and the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019. We found that industrial structure, specifically diversified industrial structure, is the major factor behind enhanced regional economic resilience. If the scale of specialized industries is large enough, they can form sufficient capacity to resist external changes and also be economically resilient. Under the negative impact, the amount of innovation can be an important part of post-disaster recovery, and stable innovation input will become a main factor for the sustainable development of industrial parks. The pressure of the uncertainty of global economic development and the transformation and upgrading of the domestic economy underscore that enterprises urgently need automation and digital transformation to enhance their competitiveness. In order to enhance economic resilience to adapt to changes in the overall environment, the industrial parks need to adjust adaptively, improve their industrial structure, and promote innovation, hoping that the regional economy will move towards a more stable and sustainable development path. Full article
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Urban Land-Use Allocation with Resilience: Application of the Lowry Model
by Chich-Ping Hu
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 15927; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142315927 - 29 Nov 2022
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The Resilient Cities Network initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation advocates achieving the goal of comprehensive resilient urban development through land-use planning, but the implementation of resilience must be achieved through a vulnerability analysis. The Lowry Model is the earliest and most used land-use [...] Read more.
The Resilient Cities Network initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation advocates achieving the goal of comprehensive resilient urban development through land-use planning, but the implementation of resilience must be achieved through a vulnerability analysis. The Lowry Model is the earliest and most used land-use integrated transportation allocation model. Its operation is mainly based on accessibility indicators to allocate population and employment opportunities, and the results of the allocation can be used as a basis for urban development. Accessibility is a unique feature of the Lowry Model, in which accessibility is a function of employment opportunities and physical distance. However, it builds non-resilient cities. A city is a system that is vulnerable and suffers the most when change occurs. A city with a high density of population, although it has location convenience, is relatively vulnerable to disasters and security threats. Ignoring resilience makes the city lose its adjustment mechanism to avoid disasters and make the city less resilient, less safe, and even less efficient. This paper takes Taoyuan City, Taiwan, as the case study area, uses the data to implement a resilience-oriented allocation of land use, and compares the results with a non-resilient land-use allocation. The results show that the resilience-oriented Lowry Type Model can indeed allocate population and service employment opportunities to districts with higher resilience and lower vulnerability, can meet the threshold standard constraints of the economies of scale, and can obeythe population density scale constraints to maintain an adequate level of quality of life. This paper offers positive conclusions that can support the application of the resilience-oriented Lowry Type Model to Taiwan and even other cities that expect resilient planning. Full article
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The COVID-19 Epidemic Spreading Effects
by Chich-Ping Hu
Sustainability 2022, 14(15), 9750; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159750 - 08 Aug 2022
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Cities are hotbeds for the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases. In the process of urban development, frequent interpersonal interactions are conducive to the spread of viruses. After the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China in 2019, it quickly spread to Europe, North [...] Read more.
Cities are hotbeds for the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases. In the process of urban development, frequent interpersonal interactions are conducive to the spread of viruses. After the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China in 2019, it quickly spread to Europe, North America, and Asia. This paper collects data on the number of COVID-19-infected cases per 100,000 people in Taiwan from 1 January to 4 May 2022 and the researcher uses the spatial regression model to analyze the spatial effect of the COVID-19 epidemic. The results of the study find that the hot zones of COVID-19-infected cases per 100,000 people are distributed in Taipei City, New Taipei City, Keelung City, Yilan County, and Taoyuan City, and the cold zones are distributed in Changhua County, Yunlin County, Chiayi County, Chiayi City, Tainan City, and Kaohsiung City. There are three types of urban development indicators: density, urbanization, and transportation system and means of transport, all of which can significantly affect the spatial spread of COVID-19. There is a negative correlation between the area of the “urban planning” district, the “road area” per person, the current status of the urban planning district population “density”, and the number of infected cases of “COVID19”. There is a negative correlation between “urban planning”, “road area”, “urbanization”, and “density” of neighboring cities and “COVID19” in a certain city. Full article
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