The role of ICT in industrial symbiosis projects - environmental ICT applications for eco-industrial development

This discussion paper provides an overview of environmental ICT applications (information and communication technologies) for eco-industrial development examples in Europe. This requires - among others - at least two basic elements: (i) a classification scheme on how to group the vast number of environmental ICT applications and software tools currently in use of being developed so far, and - no less important - (ii) an inventory of industrial symbiosis projects identified in European countries.