Dear colleagues,
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is pleased to
announce a special issue on industrial
symbiosis. The issue contains cutting edge
articles on industrial symbiosis available for
download at <http://jie.yale.edu/Vol16Symbiosis>.
Making one companys waste the raw materials for
another has long been one of the most intriguing
notions in industrial ecology. Industrial
symbiosis brings a spatial component to recycling
by exploiting the opportunities posed by
proximity and agglomeration. Industrial
symbiosis - named by analogy to the manner in
which some species in nature cooperate to mutual
advantage - came to public attention in the
early 1990s. An industrial district in Denmark
with a dense web of resource sharing and
by-product exchanges was discovered. Efforts to
replicate the Danish example led to a search for
other examples and strategies to create such
industrial networks. Twenty years later,
numerous examples have been documented and
countries from China and Korea to the UK have
embarked on programs to establish or facilitate
industrial by-product exchange. This special
issue highlights research that moves beyond case
studies to couple empirical research with
theory-building. Symbioses examined in this
research include networks in the United Kingdom,
the Netherlands, India, Australia, China, Japan, Finland, Sweden and Brazil.
To complement the special issue, a selection of
previously published articles on industrial
symbiosis has been compiled at
http://jie.yale.edu/symbiosis. Included in the
compilation is a comprehensive list of all
articles and columns published in the Journal of
Industrial Ecology on industrial symbiosis.
The Journal of Industrial Ecology
(www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jie) is a
peer-reviewed, international bimonthly journal
that examines the relationship between industry
and the environment from the perspective of the
emerging field of industrial ecology. It is owned
by Yale University, headquartered at the Yale
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Myrup
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Cheryl W. Myrup School of Forestry & Env. Studies
Assistant Editor Yale University
Journal of Industrial Ecology 195 Prospect Street
cheryl.my...@yale.edu New Haven, CT 06511-2189 USA
www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jie
