From industrial district to industrial symbiosis: An opportunity. The case of the Ponte Rosso industrial area, Italy

Erika Džajić Uršič; Igor Jelen

doi:10.3986/AGS.10513

Authors

Erika Džajić Uršič School of Advanced Social Studies Nova Gorica, Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia / Rudolfovo – Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto, Slovenia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-7002
Igor Jelen University of Trieste, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Trieste, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1964-9232

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.10513

Keywords:

industrial districts, industrial symbiosis, industrial symbiotic networks, economic geography, Friuli Venezia Giulia

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of industrial symbiosis in the industrial ecology literature, which refers to geographically close relationships between companies in which networks and geographic proximity play a vital role. Industrial symbiosis traditionally deals with different industries in a collective approach to economic and environmental management. The research was carried out in the northeast of Italy in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, close to the Slovenian border. The Ponte Rosso was used as a case study. The empirical analysis served to highlight some critical aspects of the environmental, geographic-economic, and social factors that could hinder the development of industrial symbiosis in this region

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