scholarly journals Social, Economic, and Institutional Configurations of the Industrial Symbiosis Process: A Comparative Analysis of the Literature and a Proposed Theoretical and Analytical Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7123
Author(s):  
Emilia Faria ◽  
Armando Caldeira-Pires ◽  
Cristiane Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Collective Engagement

This paper aims at comparatively analyzing the IS process in three remarkable empirical cases. Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework and its categories for analysis are used to understand each process. A theoretical and analytical framework is proposed based on a survey of contextual elements that shaped the behavior of organizations towards Industrial Symbiosis practices. The results show that although there was no clear, linear order in which the actors developed symbiotic relationships, the decisions related to Industrial Symbiosis are shaped by a similar set of variables. These variables range from technical and economic aspects, such as the diversity of industries and the viability of exchanges, to social and institutional aspects, encompassing critical environmental issues; bilateral agreements; collective engagement; trust to build cooperative relationships; communication and information sharing strategies; integrated regulatory framework at three levels; congruence between government and company actions to create a cooperative environment; and governance structures involving local government, companies, research and development institutions, and a coordinating entity or the champion. This framework may serve as a reference for diagnostic analyses assessing aspects that can be improved wherein Industrial Symbiosis is already underway. It may also be useful in prescriptive analyses assessing the potential for implementing IS.

Gemachte Märkte: institutionelles Unternehmertum im Forstsektor | Made markets – institutional entrepreneurship in the forestry sector

2010 ◽  
Vol 161 (9) ◽  
pp. 355-361
Author(s):  
Achim Schlüter ◽  
Liviu Nichiforel
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Forestry Sector ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Forestry markets are in a constant process of change of their rules of the game. This is due to the fact that preferences, scarcities and technological means are in a steady process of development. However, this process of change in the rules of the game does not only take place, as often assumed, on the political level, but it is a co-evolutionary process of political, administrative and market governance and emergence. The so-called institutional entrepreneurs play a major role in this process of change. The present paper takes a closer look at the activities of those entrepreneurs and their positive and negative effects, and develops an analytical framework, based on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. Current examples of institutional change in the forestry sector are used to illustrate our arguments.

scholarly journals Maritime Common Good and Coastal Zone Management

Pomorstvo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borna Debelić
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Classification Criteria ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Economic Goods ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

This paper aims to develop the concept and the definition of the maritime common good, its sub components and sub layers and to classify and analytically systematize it in the framework of modern theories addressing economic goods. Possible theoretical advancements and extensions in classification criteria are provided. International formal institutional framework is presented and elaborated. The accent is given to the development of theoretical concept and classification of economic goods as well as development of the Institutional Analysis and Development framework – IAD framework that is used to provide analytical understanding of the maritime good classification as well as allocation problems arising. This is performed in the light of ICZM protocol addressing coastal zones as of special concern particularly considering the intensive interrelations between humans and coastal zones. According to the developed classification criteria and analysis performed, the maritime good, as a complex good, can be classified dominantly as common good with limited renewability. The importance of further advancements of maritime common good governing mechanisms based on stakeholders’ inclusion into decision making process is emphasized in order to strengthen the potential of the mechanisms itself and the information background necessary for a successful management of the complex maritime common good.

Institutional process for infrastructural development in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-242
Author(s):  
Christian Omobhude ◽  
ShihHsin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Professional Network ◽  
Under Performing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

Infrastructural development is characteristically multifaceted, but studies tend to be focused on limited context which has shed more light on structural issues at the cost of increased ambiguity as regards institutional factors that influence infrastructural development. Combining institutional theory and institutional analysis and development framework (IADF), this research studies how institutional factors influence infrastructural development. In particular, it explores three questions: what are the main differences that exist in policymaking processes? How do stakeholders interact in infrastructural development in Nigeria? How can institutions enhance infrastructural development? The findings show that institutional arrangements and legitimacy pressures are the main reasons for organizational passivity which produce under-performing infrastructures. Initially, mimetic pressures influenced infrastructural development practices as companies imitated other company’s structures that were perceived to be beneficial to attain certain goals. However, coercive pressures by government and normative pressures wielded through professional network of actors appear to be more potent institutional instruments for reducing unresponsiveness. We concluded that favourable institutional pressures support infrastructural development practices, which indicates the need for more structured decision-making process based on collective participation of relevant stakeholders.

scholarly journals Laws, norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL H. COLE
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Type 3 ◽  
Working Rules

AbstractElinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework has been described as ‘one of the most developed and sophisticated attempts to use institutional and stakeholder assessment in order to link theory and practice, analysis and policy’. But not all elements in the framework are sufficiently well developed. This paper focuses on one such element: the ‘rules-in-use’ (a.k.a. ‘rules’ or ‘working rules’). Specifically, it begins a long-overdue conversation about relations between formal legal rules and ‘working rules’ by offering a tentative and very simple typology of relations. Type 1: Some formal legal rules equal or approximate the working rules; Type 2: Some legal rules plus (or emended by) widely held social norms equal or approximate the working rules; and Type 3: Some legal rules bear no evident relation to the working rules. Several examples, including some previously used by Ostrom, are provided to illustrate each of the three types, which can be conceived of as nodes or ranges along a continuum. The paper concludes with a call for empirical research, especially case studies and meta-analyses, to determine the relevant scope of each of these types of relations, and to provide data for furthering our understanding of how different types of rules, from various sources, function (or not) as institutions.

scholarly journals Understanding the Evolution of Industrial Symbiosis with a System Dynamics Model: A Case Study of Hai Hua Industrial Symbiosis, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Cui ◽  
Changhao Liu ◽  
Raymond Côté ◽  
Weifeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Waste Utilization ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
Input Variables ◽  
Energy And Material Flows ◽  
Parameter Values

Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a key sub-field in industrial ecology. The field itself assists in developing strategies that support local and regional sustainable development. The evolution of IS is an important topic to be explored. In this paper, we use the system dynamics (SD) method to establish a model of the evolution of industrial symbiosis in the case of Hai Hua Industrial Symbiosis (HHIS). In this model, different scenarios for energy consumption, solid waste utilization, and wastewater utilization were set by changing the parameter values of certain input variables to analyze the evolution of HHIS. In addition, the drivers for IS evolution were investigated qualitatively in this study. The SD model was helpful for visualizing the effects and benefits of reducing the energy consumption, solid waste stock, and wastewater stock that were achieved by establishing symbiotic relationships during the evolution of IS. The results show that the optimization of energy and material flows and other symbiotic benefits can be achieved in HHIS. There are still some challenges that restrict the further evolution of HHIS. Some suggestions are proposed to promote its further evolution.

scholarly journals Self-organising management of user-generated data and knowledge

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Macbeth ◽  
Jeremy V. Pitt
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Participatory Sensing ◽  
Open Approach ◽  
Computational Logic ◽  
New Class ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

AbstractThe proliferation of sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing has provided the technological push for a new class of participatory-sensing applications, based on sensing and aggregating user-generated content, and transforming it into knowledge. However, given the power and value of both the raw data and the derived knowledge, to ensure that the generators are commensurate beneficiaries, we advocate an open approach to the data and intellectual property rights by treating user-generated content, as well as derived information and knowledge, as a common-pool resource. In this paper, we undertake an extensive review of experimental, commercial and social participatory sensory applications, from which we identify that a decentralised, community-oriented governance model is required to support this approach. Furthermore, we show that Ostrom’s institutional analysis and development framework, in conjunction with a framework for self-organising electronic institutions, can be used to give both an architecture and algorithmic base for the requisite governance model, in terms of operational and collective-choice rules specified in computational logic. This provides, we believe, the foundations for engineering knowledge commons for the next generation of participatory-sensing applications, in which the data generators are also the primary beneficiaries.

scholarly journals “Critical Ecosystems” as a Concept in Political Ecology - Developing a Comprehensive Analytical Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-212
Author(s):  
Michael Acheampong
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
Political Dimensions

Political ecology is supposed to be a field of two parts of equal importance – "politics" and "ecology." However, critics have pointed to the fact that it dwells on the politics, while rendering ecology secondary in its focus. Political ecologists have hardly used the structure that the concept of ecosystem services brought to the field of ecology, and this lends credence to this critique. In this article, I introduce the concept of "critical ecosystems" that reinforces understanding of the science of "ecology", as an important dimension of political ecology. I use components of the framework of ecosystem services in context of unequal power relations. Some local people who have symbiotic relationships with their environment owe their existence – both their livelihoods and culture – to specific natural resources whose decline has proximate and tangible consequences for them. However, they often lose these "critical ecosystems" in times of natural resource exploitation due to their relative powerlessness. I argue that it is important that political ecologists utilize the framework of ecosystem services in our inquiries, to prioritize those ecosystems that are intricately connected to the survival of the local population. Based on this, I introduce the "critical ecosystems" model, and how it can be modified to fit specific cases and can reconcile the sociological and political dimensions of political ecology, with biophysical understanding of ecological processes. This holistic inquiry, I argue, will make political ecology worthy of its name.  Keywords: Political ecology; ecosystem services; unequal power relations; Millennium Ecosystems Assessment; Ghana

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