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	%0 Journal Article
	%A Patrick Innocenti and  Elias Montini and  Silvia Menato and  Marzio Sorlini
	%D 2017
	%J International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 126, 2017
	%T A Multi-Level Approach to Improve Sustainability Performances of Industrial Agglomerations
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007353
	%V 126
	%X Documented experiences of industrial symbiosis are always triggered and driven only by economic goals: environmental and (even rarely) social results are sometimes assessed and declared as effects of virtuous behaviours, but are merely casual and un-pursued side externalities. Even worse: all the symbiotic project candidates entailing economic loss for just one of the (also dozen) partners are simply stopped without considering the overall benefit for the whole partnership. The here-presented approach aims at providing methodologies and tools to effectively manage these situations and fostering the implementation of virtuous symbiotic investments in manufacturing aggregations for a more sustainable production.

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