Agent-based model for simulation of the sustainability revolution in eco-industrial parks
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F21%3APU143304" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/21:PU143304 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-021-17503-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-021-17503-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17503-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11356-021-17503-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Agent-based model for simulation of the sustainability revolution in eco-industrial parks
Original language description
Eco-industrial parks (EIPs) are of increasing importance for implementing industrial ecology strategies and are facing increasing challenges in terms of environmental pollution and resource scarcity. As a complex adaptive system, an EIP involves multiple sectors and faces various disturbances that influence its evolutionary trajectories. This study adopts an agent-based model to simulate the material flows and industrial symbiosis process in the EIP, considering the initiative of each company and the ever-changing environment. The proposed EIP model emphasises the heterogeneity of companies and attempts to reflect multiple and dynamic factors that have received less attention in previous studies. This model contains two types of agents, companies and the external environment. A company agent makes decisions and interacts with other agents following its own behaviour rules, while the external environment agent functions to coordinate the material flows and exert influence on the companies. The model has been verified and validated by simulating a 20-year-period development of an empirical EIP in China. The simulation results are assessed by three indicators: eco-connectance, eco-efficiency, and industrial symbiosis indicator. Results showed that during the growing phase, the eco-connectance increased from 0.02 to 0.1 for the non-disturbance situation. The eco-efficiency and industrial symbiosis indicator also realised 78.5% and 74.8% of their total increments. The outcome of this research provides insights for the design of the strategies to improve the industrial symbiosis performance and is of high potential to facilitate EIPs in promoting eco-transformation and sustainable development.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20704 - Energy and fuels
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000456" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000456: Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory (SPIL)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
ISSN
0944-1344
e-ISSN
1614-7499
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
29
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
23117-23128
UT code for WoS article
000720706400010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120552510