Industrial symbiosis in the Rotterdam Harbour and Industry Complex: Reflections on the interconnection of the techno-sphere with the social system

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 330-340

  Baas, Leo ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Embeddedness; Happy Shrimp Farm; Industrial ecology; Industrial symbiosis; Rotterdam Harbour and Industry Complex; Transformation; Waste heat

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; SUSTAINABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 48849109094     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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