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These can be highlighted as follows:
• Good cooperation among the national agencies with responsibility for EIPs.
• Each pilot industrial park requires an adequate management structure for
coordination and cooperation supporting the transition to an EIP.
• Both public management authorities and business associations require capacity
development and education so they can participate effectively in the EIP
initiative.
• Businesses in the park need to be involved from the beginning of the planning
process. They are the ultimate actors in the system.
• The high level planning process for the transition to EIPs must be supported by a
strong bottom up planning process, i.e., a dialog between top down and bottom up.
• An evolving long-term vision of the whole system is required to make effective
decisions about the specific strategies used in each phase of the transition.
• An EIP is much more than an exchange of by-products among companies.
• Strong support to the growth of the environmental technology and services cluster
will provide Korean industrial parks with many of the solutions they require.
• Green chemistry is an important field for petrochemical EIPs as well as
customers using chemicals.
• Resource-based policies.
• Policy in support of the EIP initiative should take an integrated view of all
aspects of cleaner production as complementary to eco-industrial strategies.
• National policy should support excellent management of the eco-industrial park
initiative and individual industrial parks (Indigo Development
2005
).
The Korean EIP initiative is relatively new and participants are still learning the
basics of eco-industrial park development. Recently, there have been a few efforts
to evaluate the outcomes of EIP demonstration projects. Several researches found
that the total of 45 pilot projects were successfully implemented and resulted in
$14 million of economic benefits mainly from energy exchange and recycling
by-products. Most of pilot EIPs could establish resource circulation networks
(Ban
2008
).
4 The CMS EIP Development Case in Gyeongnam
Province, Korea
The Gyeongnam Regional Environmental Technology Development Center sug-
gested that building a 'resource-symbiotic network' unifying a few industrial
complexes in the exchange of by-products is relatively easy, as local industrial
parks in Gyeongnam province consist of various types of industries. The Center
investigated nine industrial parks in the province from the viewpoint of material
flows and proposed the construction of the Chilseo-Macheon-Sangpyung (CMS)
resource symbiotic network.
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