The book is designed to help public and private decision-makers and academics deepen their
knowledge and understanding of the contexts obstacles and challenges of a variety of business
types involved in Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy practices.Industrial Symbiosis is
reported in the Action Plan on the Circular Economy developed by the European Commission in
2015 (COM 2015 0614 final) and in its revision of 14 March 2017 but relatively little is
known of how these practices start develop or fail and mutate in a rapidly changing
context.Including selected contributions presented at the 24th ISDRS 2018 Conference ¿Actions
for a Sustainable World: from theory to practice¿ in the two theme tracks ¿5c. Circular economy
zero waste & innovation¿ and ¿5g. Industrial symbiosis networking and cooperation as part of
industrial ecology¿ this book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on real experiences of
industrial symbiosis performed both by industries and the scientific community best practices
success and unsuccessful cases (implemented or under implementation) with the final aim to
promote the adoption of Industrial Symbiosis as an operational and systematic tool for the
Circular Economy. In particular a focus on the environmental social and economic impact of
Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis practices and how those impacts may be context and
or scale dependent is given.
