Development Of Green Industry Research Articles

Mental Model Perspective of Multi-Sector Industrial Symbiosis in Indonesia Based on Waste Exchange Strategy: Introductory Study

Indonesia, as a developing country, has a long-term national vision to become a stable industrial country which will achieve in 2035. This commitment showed by an increase in industrial sector contribution to Indonesia’s GDP, which is targeted to reach 30% in 2035 compared to 20.97% contribution to GDP in 2015. The global competition and current trends also become challenges for the Indonesian industry sector, where nowadays, international markets more prefer eco-labeled products than conventional ones. The green industry concept, which prioritizes the efficient use of resources sustainably to improve environmental performance, could be the answer to tackle both problems. Green industry development can be done through the concept of industrial symbiosis by implementing a waste exchange strategy. This strategy is applied by reusing waste as raw material for other industries. This study examines industrial symbiosis potential practices in Indonesia using waste exchange strategies in various industrial sectors through a mental model approach. The mental model structure in this study was built by exploring possible synergies between industries through byproduct similarity. From the psychological model, we uncovered nine waste categories as vital nodes in waste-resource networks. This preliminary study may serve as additional industrial planning guidance for the Indonesian government and other related stakeholders in the green industry development

Sustainable and Special Economic Zone Selection under Fuzzy Environment: A Case of Pakistan

The establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is a lengthy, expensive, and long-term orientated endeavor. Proper selection of SEZs is indispensable to meet the objectives of export-led growth and value up-gradation. Consideration of sustainability issues in such planning under the Zone 3.0 paradigm is critical to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Multiple key factors such as location, linkages, labor force, suitability of industries, incentives and facilitation, and market orientation are important in decision-making process of establishing SEZs. Furthermore, environmental conditions and resource availability need to be considered in the planning and policy making processes to keep symmetry in the natural environment and ecosystem of the areas under consideration for SEZs. The present study uses Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods in the perspectives of green industrial zone planning and development in Pakistan under the flagship project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This research uses Delphi method, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), and the Fuzzy Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR). The Delphi method has been used to identify the main criteria, sub-criteria, and their weights for 3 SEZs under consideration. The results of AHP analysis unfolded that the majority of the experts believe the location and land aspect is the most pivotal criteria in setting SEZs followed by linkages, subsidies, and facilities criteria. Finally, the results of Fuzzy VIKOR analysis considering environmental sustainability reveals that Faisalabad SEZ is the best suited under given criteria and sub-criteria.

An improved evaluation framework for industrial green development: Considering the underlying conditions

Abstract Industrial green development (IGD) is fundamental for curbing serious pollution and over-consumption of natural resources caused by industrial growth, while quantification of the IGD level has become instrumental in guiding further progress. However, three existing research gaps prevent a comprehensive and accurate evaluation of the IGD level. These gaps include the ignorance of the underlying conditions, lack of spatio-temporal comparability in the IGD indicator system, and absence of more reasonable assumptions within the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) and slack-based measure (SBM) methods. The main goals of this study are to propose an improved evaluation framework to fill these gaps and to provide new knowledge by analyzing the IGD status, weaknesses, and spatio-temporal differences. With the collected panel data across 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2015, the following findings were revealed based on the proposed evaluation framework: 1) both the performance and quality of IGD increased but their growth rates had significantly declined in the later years; 2) pollution abatement had the maximum improvement, followed by low-carbon production, resource reduction, and economic operation; 3) coastal provinces had higher performance and quality of IGD than inland provinces, especially for low-carbon production and pure technical efficiency; 4) provinces with higher IGD performance usually had higher pure technical efficiency, but not scale efficiency; 5) the traditional evaluation framework either significantly overestimated or underestimated the IGD efforts in some provinces. Our findings highlight the importance of differentiated policies between coastal provinces and inland provinces or between high-IGD-performance/quality provinces and low-IGD-performance/quality provinces, as well as call for effective measures in response to slowing growth. Moreover, our methodology can comprehensively and accurately evaluate the IGD level by applying an extensive process considering underlying conditions/inputs, a spatio-temporal indicator system, and new integrated methods.

Construction and countermeasure discussion on government performance evaluation model of air pollution control: A case study from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

The main purpose of this paper is to build an objective and effective environmental performance evaluation model of air pollution control. Based on the severe air polluted region in China, that is Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, this evaluation model consists of four parts, including economic benefits, public service, government management and development potential, and uses the balanced scorecard theory. The weights of the indexes are measured by comprehensive evaluation method, which combined entropy weight method and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). To test the applicability of the evaluation method to different stages, back propagation (BP) neural network is introduced to simulate air pollution control in the future. The results reveal that the environmental performance of air pollution control in Beijing had an upward trend during 2010–2016, and the trend would continue in the next five years. The environmental performance of Tianjin continuously increased, especially from 2014 to 2016. Tianjin has great potential of air pollution control in the future. The environmental performance of air pollution control in Hebei fluctuated from 2010 to 2016 and it dropped to the lowest level in 2015, which mainly due to the large increase in number of days with air quality levelⅡor above compared with 2014 and the nonsignificant growth in the amount of expenditure on atmospheric prevention and control, the amount of investment in the control of industrial pollution sources and the number of law enforcement personnel. Moreover, the environmental performance of air pollution control closely related with industrial structure, especially with the proportion of the tertiary industry. The upgrading of urban industrial structure and the coordinated development of green industry should be implemented to restructure the environmental transformation in air-polluted region.

Research on the Development Characteristics of Green Energy Industry in Main Developed Countries

Green energy is regarded as the breakthrough of the fourth technological revolution of mankind, which is highly concerned by the whole world. By analysing the development strategies of major developed countries to promote green energy industry, this paper constructs a theoretical framework from four aspects: government policy, green consumption, technology and capital, so as to summarize the typical characteristics of the development of green energy industry. The study found that government policy and technology are the main driving force for the development of green energy industry in major developed countries, the resource-rich United States leads the industrial development with policy, and the European Union obtains new energy development through policy and technological innovation at the same time. Japan continues to innovate and take the lead in technology to break the limitations of innate conditions. The conclusions of the study will help countries with the same resource base, policy environment and consumption concept to sort out the development ideas of green energy, and provide some reference and reference for the formulation of effective development strategies.

A longitudinal study of green industrial performance for the period 2000-2015

This article undertakes a longitudinal study of the green industrial performance of a set of 104 economies for 2000 to 2015. Our analysis concludes that industrialised countries continue to lead green industrial performance in 2015, with Denmark, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Germany and the Czech Republic being the top performers. Selected emerging industrial economies display significant progress. Leading performers have equipped themselves with comprehensive green strategies and policies. Green industrial development seems to offer an untapped potential for developing countries. In this article, we refine an earlier version of our green industrial performance (GIP) index by using a revised definition of green products. We also use new imputation methods of missing values. Finally, our study puts forward a set of recommendations for future research.

Marketing Strategy of Green Agricultural Products based on Consumption Intention

With the improvement of people's living standards and the increasing emphasis on food safety, the green agricultural products industry has been growing. Based on the current achievements of Heilongjiang agricultural product brand and marketing, this paper analyzes the demand, price, channel, promotion and other aspects of green agricultural products from the perspective of consumer willingness and consumer behavior. Combined with the natural conditions of green agricultural products and based on the actual situation, this paper puts forward feasible marketing strategies for green agricultural products. On the one hand, the development of green agricultural products industry is conducive to creating a green and environmental business environment. On the other hand, it can further promote food safety, tap the local market demand, develop potential customers, and explore the combination of modern information technology and agricultural development. Some marketing strategies to adapt to the green agricultural products are put forward, such as expanding the docking of agricultural supermarkets, developing the community green agricultural products supermarkets, and the new development of mobile e-commerce.

Evaluation Method for the Maturity Levels of Green and Low-Carbon Emerging Industries

The next 10 to15 years will be a key period for China to accelerate the cultivation and development of emerging industries. The development of green and low-carbon industries, an important task of China’s ecological civilization construction, will face an important period of opportunity. The green and low-carbon emerging industry is represented by emerging energy technologies, energy conservation and environment protection, and new energy vehicles; and there are significate differences in the technical characteristics, scale, and development degree of each subsector. Therefore, research on the corresponding maturity evaluation method is urgently needed. This study first summarizes the basic theory and general method for industry maturity evaluation, then defines the category and definition of green and low-carbon industries, and identifies the characteristics of high-quality development of related industries. Meanwhile, the maturity evaluation model and index system of the green and low-carbon industries are proposed and the calculation method of the industry maturity levels is presented. Moreover, application of the maturity evaluation method of the green and lowcarbon industries is studied, using the biomass cogeneration industry as an example. The analysis shows that this industry is relatively mature, but the development of market maturity level is slower than the progress of engineering science and technology. Furthermore, we suggest that an annual evaluation mechanism for the maturity level of the green and low-carbon industries should be formed, an authoritative institution for publishing the development information of these industries should be established, and the database construction and objective evaluation of China’s emerging industries should be strengthened.

Research on China’s Green Finance Policies Based on Text Mining

Based on the green finance policies in China from 2017 to 2019, this paper extracts feature and high-frequency words from policy documents, uses word cloud diagram, co-occurrence matrix and social network analysis techniques to quantitatively analyse the information contained in the green finance policies over the past three years and highlights the hot issues in question, thus providing a multi-layered and wideranging pathway for facilitating the orderly development of green finance industries across China.

Research on the Key Restrictive Factors of Green Energy Industry Development in Western China

The development of the green energy industry in western China plays an important role in promoting local economic and social development and ensuring national energy security. At the same time, industrial development also faces imbalances in the supply and demand of green energy, insufficient local energy consumption, limited extension of the industrial chain, poverty alleviation and ecological protection and other issues. Combining the development characteristics of the green energy industry in the western region, with policy guidance, market improvement, and technological progress as the main analysis framework, based on the Delphi method, the key constraints for the green energy industry in western China are proposed, and the western green energy industry and social economy. The possible mechanism of action between development has certain reference value for promoting the development of the green energy industry and improving the operation mechanism of the green energy industry.

Case study of industrial green development on the perspective of ecological civilization in China

With the increasing concern of ecological crisis and sustainable development, the issue of green development has aroused widespread focus in the academic and practical domain. Green development and ecological civilization are especially important to developing country, which interact and both are the basis of sustainable development. This paper analyzed the present background, status, importance and problem about green development in China and shared a case study of the practice in Green Development in Anshan, as well as proposed specific tactics to promote realization of goal of green development and ecological civilization on the two main direction from the perspective of ecological civilization, which enriches the theory of green development and ecological civilization and guides the practical implication and implement of industry transformation.

On the development of innovative green industries

The article explores trends in and imperatives of the world economy’s most prominent green industries – renewable energy and biopharmaceuticals. The goal is to identify their importance and ways to achieve competitive advantage in them. The paper emphasizes that much of the renewables’ development in the United States and European counties is owed to world’s energy and financial and economic crises. The latter has become an important driver of support to research and development and the further energy generation from renewable sources. The crucial American and European laws enacted in 2009 are examined. The renewables’ incentives having been used for a long period are structured into two groups. The paper reveals the current trend of shifting from feed-in tariffs to premiums and tenders in many Western countries. The author makes a conclusion that large investment amounts and use of a broad range of incentives have resulted in the USA and several European countries holding the top positions in renewable energy capacity and exports. The article identifies that biopharmaceuticals is the most prominent area of bioeconomy, which is considered to be one of the drivers of environmentally sustainable economic growth. Top 10 biotech (and biopharma) corporations by market capitalization are specified, as well as the modern development strategies of the biopharma’s leaders.

Green industry development in China: An index based assessment from perspectives of both current performance and historical effort

Green economy has become mainstream in the world’s development, and green industry development is becoming increasingly urgent especially in China for achieving its sustainable development goals. Through combining the actual demand of China’s green industry development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this study established a comprehensive index system, including economic growth, social stability, and environmental friendliness. Different from previous studies that only consider one index in evaluation of the green industry development level, this study proposes an evaluation framework with two composite indices from two perspectives, to comprehensively assess the green industry development level of 18 China’s high-industrialized provinces during the period of 2011–2015. One is the Green Industry Performance (GIPer) index to assess the current performance, and the other is Green Industry Progress (GIPro) index to reflect the historical effort in green transformation. As far as we know, our comprehensive assessment combining the two perspectives is the first study of this kind in the research field of green industry development. Then, by comparing the values of GIPer and GIPro of each province with the median values, all evaluated provinces are classified as advanced or backward in terms of current performance, and classified as active or passive in terms of the progress in green transformation. Four categories (in combination of these two indices), which are “advanced-active”, “advanced-passive”, “backward-active” and “backward-passive", are determined. In each category, the key indicators restricting for green industry development of every province are identified, and corresponding policy recommendation is put forward to enhance green industry development.

Evaluating environmental sustainability of an urban industrial plan under the three-line environmental governance policy in China

Rapid and large-scale industrial growth has imposed tremendous challenges to the sustainable development of cities in China. The evaluation of the environmental sustainability of industrial planning has become a top priority for improving urban sustainability. In this regard, a goal-oriented framework, called three-line environmental governance, was proposed in the latest Chinese environmental management policy. Three lines, consisting of an ecological conservation red line, an environmental quality bottom line and a resource utilization upper limit line are to be taken into account when evaluating the potential effects of an urban industrial development plan. In this paper, the fuzzy axiomatic design system was applied in the development of an evaluation process and an indicator system that can be used to evaluate industrial alternatives that are established based on the three lines requirement. In an application of this methodology, the Industrial Green Development Plan of the city of Ordos was taken as a case study to recommend an optimal alternative. The target accessibilities of five alternatives were evaluated by conducting a comprehensive comparison among the alternatives meeting the environmental sustainability objectives of all of the indicators. This research shows that the evaluation of environmental sustainability on the basis of the three-line environmental governance policy is an effective way of promoting industrial green development and integrating environmental management requirements into urban industrial planning. It proposes not only a universal process for evaluating the environmental sustainability of urban industrial alternatives, but also a feasible method of tracking and evaluating the performance of industrial green development.

Research on Green and Low-carbon Development Strategy of Chinese Circulation Industry

In recent years, with the continuous development of social economy, Chinese circulation industry has developed rapidly, and has become one of the important industries causing pollution in China. In order to build an ecologically civilized country, China needs to develop the circulation industry into a green and low-carbon industry. This paper analyses the problems in the development of green and low-carbon circulation industry in China. Based on the problems existing in the development of circulation industry, this paper puts forward some pertinent suggestions on the low-carbon development of circulation industry from two aspects of circulation enterprises and the Chinese government.

Green industry development in different types of regions

ABSTRACTAt the regional level, the imperative of sustainable development often manifests itself in an emphasis on developing green industries. However, regions vary in their preconditions for achieving this. In this paper we link regional preconditions to various pathways for green industry development. This provides the foundation for identifying place-based policy implications for growing green industries in different types of regions, grounded in the emerging perspective in innovation studies on transformative innovation policy. The paper thereby helps to understand the pathways for greening the economy in different regional contexts and how such green pathways can be promoted through policy.

IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCTION PROCESS ORGANIZATION IN THE RESOURCE SAVING SYSTEM OF PETROCHEMICAL ENTERPRISES

The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that the issues of resource-saving technology implementation in the petrochemical complex have not been fully addressed yet and require further study and systematization of the determining factors, which is especially important on the back of the emergence and development of green industries and the digital economy in Russia. The purpose of the article is to identify the factors of the resource saving system and the extent, to which digital technologies are used by petrochemical enterprises. The main research methods underlying the article include the method of description used to identify trends in the waste production and consumption in petrochemical facilities; component analysis method, which helped to identify three groups of criteria factors affecting the resource saving system of the petrochemical industry, depending on the level of its digitalization; factor analysis method used to compile the indicators of digital technologies application in the petrochemical complex into three groups; and production function modeling for the petrochemical industry, taking into account the digital physical and digital human capital. The paper analyzes the resource saving system in the Russian petrochemical complex; the resource saving system of the petrochemical industry has been modeled, depending on the level of its digitalization; also the study provides a production function model for the petrochemical industry, which may be used to model the parameters and the resulting indicators of the resource saving system in the petrochemical industry. The information contained in the article can be used to develop strategies and programs aimed at the improvement of the resource-saving system efficiency in petrochemical enterprises, taking into account the requirements for production digitalization and the ratio of digital physical to digital human capital.

Dynamic Assessment of Environmental Efficiency in Chinese Industry: A Multiple DEA Model with a Gini Criterion Approach

While China’s rapid industrialization has brought great pressure on environmental pollution, great variations appear in terms of environmental pollution levels among industries. The effective assessment of the environmental performance of different industries is not only conducive to identifying the major sources of pollution in China but also of great significance to the Chinese government in formulating differentiated industry environmental control policies in a targeted manner. Using data of 36 Chinese industries from 2006 to 2015 and a multiple data envelopment analysis (DEA) with a Gini criterion as well as a systematic clustering approach, this study first calculates the environmental efficiency score of Chinese industries and then identifies those pollution sources based on a ranking and clustering analysis. The main result indicates that the ranking of environmental efficiency of various industries overall varies greatly by time. In addition, using a clustering analysis, this study finds that 13 labor-intensive light industries and heavy chemical industries with high energy use and high emissions are medium- and high-pollution industries. Important policy implications are drawn to achieve green industrial development.

Innovation-driven industrial green development: The moderating role of regional factors

Industrial green development (IGD) is a critical response to the over-consumption of natural resources and pollution caused by modern industry. Innovation-driven IGD has generated great interest in recent years. However, relatively less attention has been paid to the various aspects of IGD and the moderating role of regional factors, including the developmental stage of IGD, government-scale, and enterprise-scale. The present study was conducted to fill these research gaps using panel data across 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2015. The empirical results show that 1) innovation does promote IGD and is most effective in low-carbon production, followed by resource reduction, economic operation, and pollution abatement; 2) there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between the regional IGD level and the role of innovation in IGD; and 3) both government-scale and enterprise-scale contribute to the innovation-driven IGD. These findings provide new insights into the impact of innovation on IGD and may shed light on future decisions related to green development.

Analysis on the theory and practice of industrial symbiosis based on bibliometrics and social network analysis

Industrial symbiosis (IS) can generate economic, social, and environmental benefits, and support sustainable development; thus, many governments and scholars are devoted to exploring it. To analyze and evaluate the current status and development trends of industrial symbiosis, this study selects “industrial symbiosis” as a research title to search the Web of Science (core collection) database, and uses the bibliometrics and social network analysis (SNA) methods. The results turn out that an increasing amount of research has been devoted to industrial symbiosis in recent years. They also show that the study of industrial symbiosis has obvious cross-disciplinary characteristics. Current research on industrial symbiosis mainly focuses on four issues: evolution and development, operation carriers, driving mechanisms, and efficiency evaluation of industrial systems. The research of the industrial symbiosis network will greatly promote the industrial green development for the industrial transformation and upgrading of various countries. Many methods are used to examine these four questions, including case studies, life cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA), data envelopment analysis (DEA), multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), emergy analysis, and SNA. This article provides the trends of industrial symbiosis research for further study. The data mining can be used in the industrial symbiosis network and a dynamic simulation industry symbiotic evolutionary process model can be discussed in the future.