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Toward a sociological approach of industrial ecology in harbor area: DEPART, a French applied research
program
Nicolas Mat, Guillaume Junqua, Miguel Lopez-Ferber, Juliette Cerceau
To cite this version:
Nicolas Mat, Guillaume Junqua, Miguel Lopez-Ferber, Juliette Cerceau. Toward a sociological ap-
proach of industrial ecology in harbor area: DEPART, a French applied research program. ISIE
Conference, Jun 2011, Berkeley, United States. 2011, �10.1162/jiec.0.1110�. �hal-03249340�
Toward a sociological approach to industrial ecology in harbor areas.
DEPART: a French applied research program.
Nicolas Mat
1*, Guillaume Junqua
2, Miguel Lopez-Ferber
2, Juliette Cerceau
21Auxilia – 41 rue du chemin vert, 75011 Paris 2Ecole des Mines d’Alès - 6 avenue de Clavières, 30 319 Alès Cedex, France
*Corresponding author: nicolas.mat@auxilia.asso.fr
Harbors: laboratories for industrial ecology
Harbor areas are hubs between the sea and their ‘hinterland’ and gateways for major material, waste, and energy flows. As areas of high economic interest, they concentrate strategic resource, which enable the development of complementary activities along major corridors of communication, and intensify social and political relations between stakeholders. They appear to be suitable laboratories for investigating how industrial ecology can become a solution for waste management issues. In addition, in France, several institutions involved in harbor development share common waste management issues, such as wise use of dredged materials and construction waste.
Material flows, social networks, and waste management awareness are the pre-conditions for industrial symbiosis. But the question remains: what kind of industrial ecology approach can transform these favorable conditions into sustainable and operational development? Do attempts to impose eco-industrial development lead to more sustainable development than ‘uncovering’
spontaneous innovative approaches to waste management, which incorporate – albeit unconsciously – industrial ecology principles?
(Chertow, 2007)
Having won a call for projects from the French environmental agency (ADEME), the DEPART project will be run within the scope of this theoretical and operational context. Our methodological framework insists on the necessity of the profound integration of technical and sociological approaches to industrial ecology as one of the conditions for the success and durability of sustainable waste management.
Keywords: Waste management, symbiosis, harbor, social sciences
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A permanent link between research and field experiment
Innovative tools for industrial ecology in harbor areas
Exploring methodological and operational consequences of the “social embeddedness of industrial ecology” (Boons and Howard-Grenville, 2009), analysis tools developed in the DEPART project aim to help enhance knowledge in the field of industrial ecology and implement it in local territories.
The innovative aspect of DEPART’s methodological approach consists in a change of perspectives: rather than focusing on material flows circulating through territories, emphasis is put on the needs of socioeconomic stakeholders as well as the skills available locally as a way to optimize resource management.
Thus, the DEPART project proposes a pragmatic approach: understanding the skills and expectations of local harbor stakeholders, it develops tools in order to benefit from pre-existing eco-industrial relationships, and thus stimulate and catalyze new industrial ecology perspectives. To guarantee the relevance of the tools developed, the DEPART methodologies are tested on experimental sites (harbor areas at Fos-sur-Mer (GPMM) and in Le Havre (CODAH)).
. . .
From the development of tools…
…To… …Their
implementation in harbor areas
Development of territorial analysis tools (governance, policies, material flows) Development of analysis tools for international feedback
Development of decision tools
Analysis of operational and strategic territorial contexts in terms of waste management Participation in the networking of harbor territories through waste management issues Sharing and testing of tools in connection with local expectations Framing
Diagnosis
International feedback
Recommendations
Conclusion
• Analysis chart for collecting stakeholders comprehension and
evaluation of territorial waste • Understanding of social network
Note finale Domaine n°1
Actio n n°1Connaitre et limiter les poll utions lié es aux dé che ts -3
Actio n n°2Préserver l es ressources e t di minue r le ur consommati on 0
Actio n n°3Evaluer la capacité de support de s mi lieux ré cepte urs 1
Actio n n°4Favori ser le recyclage, la ré util isation, la réducti on e t la préve ntion des déchets -3
Résultat - Envi ronnement -1
Domaine n°2
Actio n n°1Val orise r des ressources humaine s et l es compétence s l ocal es en matière de ge stion de s déchets -4 Actio n n°2Réal ise r de s dé marches de sensibilisation visant à change r le s mode s de consommation et à mieux gére r le s dé che ts (tri,…) 0
Actio n n°3Réparti r clai re me nt des rôles dans la ge stion de s déchets -3
Actio n n°4Dével opper des ré seaux d'acte urs locaux de maniè re à favorise r le s syne rgie s entre s acteurs -2
Résultat - Gouve rnance et Développement social -2
Domaine n°3
Actio n n°1Dével opper et valorise r le s re ssource s local es 3
Actio n n°2Favori ser la péré nni té des activité s de gesti on des dé chets existante s 1
Actio n n°3Ide ntifier et répondre correcte me nt aux besoins l ocaux e n terme s de gestion des dé chets 0
Actio n n°4Dével opper et soute nir de s nouvell es activités e t des technologi es propres e t sobres -3
Résultat - Déve loppement é conomique 0
Domaine n°4
Actio n n°1Planifier et mutualise r le s moyens disponible s pour la ge stion des déchets en vue de le ur utili sati on optimal e 2
Actio n n°2Antici per les mutations du te rritoi re 2
Actio n n°3Articule r le s différentes éche lles te rritori al es (commune, inte rcommunali té , départe me nt, région, inte rrégi on) -2
Actio n n°4Réal ise r de s choix de gesti on e t de déve loppe me nt ré ve rsibles 1
Ré sul tat - Politique e t gesti on 1
Domaine n°5
Actio n n°1Evaluer les transfe rts de problèmes (dont la pol lution liée aux déchets) vers d'autres territoire s 1 Actio n n°2Evaluer les transfe rts de problèmes (dont la pol lution liée aux déchets) aux géné rations future s -2
Actio n n°3Evaluer les i mpacts e t l es polluti ons l iés à la ge stion des déchets 0
Actio n n°4Evaluer la pertine nce de s proje ts e n matière de gestion de s dé che ts dans le conte xte l ocal 2 Ré sul tat - Anal yse et évaluation de s pol itiques 0
Lé gende Acti on importante e t prise e n compte
Acti on peu importante e t peu pri se en compte
Acti on importante e t mal prise e n compte Environne me nt
Gouvernance et Dével oppement social
Déve loppe me nt é conomique
Pol itique et ge stion
Analyse et é valuation des poli ti que s
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Environnement
Gouvernance et développement social
Développement économique Politique et gestion Analyse et évaluation des politiques
The implementation of these tools for harbor areas will improve the understanding of issues and dynamics that define waste management in harbor areas. In addition, it will explore the link between waste management policies and local development, the impact of stakeholders’ culture of cooperation on industrial ecology, as well as the local skills required to facilitate these new collaborative projects. International feedback on waste management strategies developed in harbor areas will allow these issues to be compared across different cultures and contribute to the networking of harbor areas through industrial ecology.
References:
Chertow, Marian R. “‘Uncovering’ Industrial Symbiosis.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 11, no. 1 (March 2007): 070301071346001.
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1162/jiec.0.1110.
Boons, F, and J. Howard-Grenville. The social embeddedness of industrial ecology, 2009.
Conclusion and perspectives
evaluation of territorial waste management issues
Identifying territorial issues shared by stakeholders
• Analysis tool to represent the local ecosystem of skills
Understanding socioeconomic skills
available locally
• Understanding of social network combining national basis data, interviews and UCINET software
“Uncovering” pre-existing forms of co-operation between stakeholders
• Development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) for material flow analysis
Detecting pre-existing and potential synergies
Acknoweldgements
Benoit Duret, Mydiane; Fabrice Margaine, Vianova Systems;Florian Julian-Saint Amand, Systèmes Durables, Jean-Baptiste Bahers, Université de Toulouse II; Nicolas Blanc et Claire Pinet, ADEME; Fredéric Proniewski, CODAH; Hervé Moine, GPMM; Dimitri Coulon, CNR: Olivier Lemaire, AIVP
ISIE 2011 Conference, Berkeley, California, June 7-10, 2011
