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case study to demonstrate the benefits of and approach to EIP. New EIPs
have been designed and engineered by researchers, companies, and developers
in different parts of the world such as the Netherlands, Austria, Canada, USA,
Denmark, Spain, Costa Rica, Australia, Finland, etc. The world marches to
adopting EIP concept, and thus more and more EIP is introduced all over the
world every day such as:

• Crewe Business Park, UK
• Knowsley Park, UK
• Londonderry Eco-Industrial Park, UK
• Trafford Park, UK
• Emscher, Germany
• Value Park, Germany
• Environmental Park, Italy
• Hartberg Ecopark, Austria
• Styria, Austria
• Herning-Ikast Industrial Park, Denmark
• Vreten, Solna, Sweden
• Sphere Ecoindustrie D’alsace, France
• Parc Industriel Plaine de l’Ain (Pipa), France
• Burnside Industrial Park in Dartmouth, Canada
• New Eco-Industrial Park in Hinton, Alberta, Canada
• Brownsville, Texas, USA
• Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
• Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Cape Charles, Virginia, USA, etc

The concept of Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP) was first developed by Indigo
Development (Indigo Development 2006). In the early 1990s, innovators at
Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada) and Cornell University (Ithaca,
New York, USA) conceived related frameworks for industrial park develop-
ment (Côté and Cohen-Rosenthal, 1998). Indigo introduced this concept to
staff at the US-EPA in 1993. The EPA then included an EIP project in an
Environmental Technology Initiative and recommended that the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development adopts EIPs as demonstration projects
in 1995. From 1994 to 1995 Indigo collaborated with Research Triangle
Institute in a major US-EPA cooperative research grant focused on EIPs.
An eco-industrial park or estate is a community of manufacturing and
service businesses located together on a common property. Member businesses
seek enhanced environmental, economic, and social performance through
collaboration in managing environmental and resource issues. By working
together, the community of businesses seeks a collective benefit that is
greater than the sum of individual benefits each company would realize by
only optimizing its individual performance.