Community Participation
Community Participation is the engagement, at varying levels of influence and decision-making authority, of the relevant community stakeholders in the design and implementation of an eco-industrial development project.
Community
Community is the local village, the town or district where the industrial park is situated. Stakeholders are based in the local economic, cultural, political, or institutional framework of the region; this may include, for example, a clustering of small businesses, inner city low-income residential neighborhood, or neighborhood associations.
Cleaner Production
Cleaner Production is a holistic preventive and integrated strategy for the entire production cycle, that:
- increases productivity by ensuring a more efficient use of raw materials, energy and water
- promotes better environmental performance through reduction at source of waste and emissions
- reduces the environmental impact of products throughout their life cycle by the design of environmentally friendly but
cost-effective products.
(United Nations Industrial Development Organization – UNIDO)
Circular Economy
Circular Economy, a holistic economic concept which seeks efficiency in resource use through the integration of cleaner production and industrial ecology into a broader system encompassing industrial firms, networks or
chains of firms, eco-industrial parks, and regional infrastructure to support resource optimization. State owned and private enterprises, government and private infrastructure, and consumers all have a role in achieving the Circular Economy.
Brownfields
Brownfields are industrial or otherwise developed areas that have been affected by former users or surrounding activities and so are underused or unusable and require remediation before being further developed. The US-EPA defines a Brownfield as ―real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant‖.