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Industrial Symbiosis Systems: Promoting Carbon Emission Reduction Activities

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  • Haiyan Shan

    (China Institute of Manufacturing Development, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China
    School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China)

  • Junliang Yang

    (School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China)

  • Guo Wei

    (Mathematics & Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372, USA)

Abstract

The carbon emission problem in China needs to be solved urgently. Industrial symbiosis, as an effective means to improve resource efficiency, can better alleviate the carbon emission problem. Under such a circumstance, this paper regards an industrial symbiosis system as a collection of producers, consumers and decomposers, and analyzes the strategic selections and behavioral characteristics of their carbon emission reduction activities through a tripartite evolutionary game model, and then the effects of related parameters on the evolutionary stable strategies of stakeholders are discussed. The results demonstrate that: (1) the regular return and the rate of return determine the ability of stakeholders to undertake carbon reduction activities; (2) the initial willingness of stakeholders to participate will affect the evolutionary speed of the strategies; (3) a high opportunity cost reduces the inertia of stakeholders to carry out carbon emission reductions; (4) producers, consumers and decomposers can avoid “free rides” by signing agreements or adopting punitive measures.

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  • Haiyan Shan & Junliang Yang & Guo Wei, 2019. "Industrial Symbiosis Systems: Promoting Carbon Emission Reduction Activities," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-23, March.
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