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Abstract: The adoption of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) practices within urban areas is gaining interest due to the environmental impacts entailed by the development of cities. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about how the relationships between industrial and urban areas can be modelled. In this context, this research aimed at posing a conceptual model to understand and represent Urban-Industrial Systems (UIS). To this end, a set of worldwide previous UIS experiences were overviewed to identify the agents, dynamics, and collaboration opportunities that characterize them. The multi-perspective analysis of these cases indicated that UIS are complex systems, which means that they are autonomous, self-organized, responsive, nonlinear, and willing to consolidate their resilience. As such, Agent-Based Models (ABM) were suggested to be the most suitable approach for their representation.
Authorship: Ruiz-Puente C.,
Fuente: Sustainability, 2021, 13(16), 9292
Publisher: MDPI
Publication date: 18/08/2021
No. of pages: 15
Publication type: Article
DOI: 10.3390/su13169292
ISSN: 2071-1050
Spanish project: DPI2017-88127-R
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MARIA DEL CARMEN RUIZ PUENTE
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