Eco-Industrial Parks from Strategic Niches to Development Mainstream: The Cases of China

Lei Shi and Bing Yu
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Lei Shi: State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Eco-Industry, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Bing Yu: State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Eco-Industry, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Sustainability, 2014, vol. 6, issue 9, 1-7

Abstract: China has implemented eco-industrial park (EIP) initiatives as a mainstream strategy of a circular economy since the turn of the new century. This paper presents the sustainable transition processes and outcomes of three EIP cases, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area (TEDA), Fuzhou Economic and Technological Development Area (FEDA) and the Xi’an High-Tech Zone (XHTZ). The cases uncovered four factors key to the transition of EIPs: technological trajectory dependency, spaces for experimentation, government as an enabler and regional embeddedness.

Keywords: eco-industrial parks; strategic niches; sustainable transition; industrial ecology; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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