The scale effects of symbiotic relationships under complex driving factors: An empirical study in China.

Symbiotic relationships between enterprises help mitigate resource and environmental impacts of industrial activities via exchanging waste or by‐products as material inputs among each other. However, the emergence of such symbiotic relationships under complex driving factors across different geograp...

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Publicado en:Journal of Industrial Ecology Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 1979 - 1996
Autores principales: Chen, Hongjia, Zhang, Zimeng, Ioppolo, Giuseppe, Shi, Lei, Wang, Zhen, Liu, Gang
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2024
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          Chen, Hongjia
          Zhang, Zimeng
          Ioppolo, Giuseppe
          Shi, Lei
          Wang, Zhen
          Liu, Gang
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          College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
          Department of Economics, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
          School of Resources & Environment, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
          College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
          SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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        Industrial ecology
        Empirical research
        Industrial capacity
        Random forest algorithms
        Machine learning
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        driving factors
        emergence mechanism
        geographic scales
        industrial symbiosis
        machine learning
        Shannon index
        symbiotic relationships
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      ab: Symbiotic relationships between enterprises help mitigate resource and environmental impacts of industrial activities via exchanging waste or by‐products as material inputs among each other. However, the emergence of such symbiotic relationships under complex driving factors across different geographical scales remains hitherto not well understood. Here, we provide an analytic framework including a random forest model and Shannon index, to systematically describe and explain the scale effects of driving factors underlying the symbiotic relationships. Based on a questionnaire survey for 324 enterprises in Chun'an, a typical industrial city in eastern China, we applied this analytical framework. The results show that, first, the quantity of symbiotic relationships exhibits an inversely proportional function across various geographical scales. Second, there exist significant differences in the dominant factors at different scales. Finally, the diversity of importance of factors and the emergence of symbiotic relationships exhibit a consistent trend of fluctuation, providing evidence for the explanatory potential of our proposed analytical framework for the driving mechanisms of emergence. We find that when enterprises are simultaneously affected by multiple driving factors with potent forces (referred to as the diversity of importance), symbiotic behaviors are more likely to occur. Moreover, our results suggest that fostering symbiotic relationships necessitates considering the variations in driving factors across different scales comprehensively and formulating targeted promotional measures tailored to the specific driving factors of different enterprise types. Our proposed framework would help to maximize industrial symbiosis potentials in a specific region.
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