New Innovative and Attractive Models for Promoting Circular Economy Actions Between Industrial Parks and Surroundings Areas: The Scientific Focus

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About this Special Issue

Dear Colleagues,

This SI is a scientific target of the Italian Research Project (PRIN PNRR), entitled "CE_IPsa: A development model for Circular Economy between Industrial Parks and surroundings areas"—CUP: J53D23016630001; CI: P20227NFA4.

This SI aims to gather scientific contributions in order to define a modelling framework for promoting the interconnection between industrial parks (IPs) and the surrounding context based on the principles of industrial symbiosis and circular economy. In detail, the SI invites authors to submit papers that will identify the synergies potentially existing between firms operating in an industrial park and the surrounding area, particularly in terms of potential matching points between the production inputs required by the former on the one side and by-products/waste produced outside the park on the other.

The proposal papers can be clustered in five main sections:

1. Theoretical overview of the literature concerning the planning, monitoring, and evaluation methodologies of IS/CE.
2. Analysis and mapping of the production fabric of a selected industrial park and the surrounding area.
3. Definition of the development model through the (i) analysis of national and international best practises and the (ii) assessment of the existence of potential synergies among firms operating in the areas studied in step two in terms of the by-products and resources to be shared.
4. Definition of the development plan, involving (i) the identification of proper impact measures; (ii) the evaluation of the feasibility of the interventions included in the development model through its application; (iii) the identification of the interventions required in a selected area; and iv) the definition of the set of public incentives necessary for implementing the model.
5. Construction of a decision support system, defined as a set of guidelines for supporting policymakers and entrepreneurs to pursue an integrated planning of IS/CE interventions.

Prof. Dr. Roberta Arbolino
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ioppolo
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