a Department of Environmental Management and Technology, Van Lang University, 45 Nguyen Khac Nhu street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam
b Environmental Policy group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 35, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
c Environmental System Analysis Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Available online 12 July 2011.
Abstract
The concept of industrial ecology has been applied in this research to study possibilities to develop an eco-industrial cluster model for fishery production industry in Vietnam. By learning from experiments of other developed countries, we apply the principles of Industrial Ecology and of Ecological Modernization in the context of Vietnam. We design a physical-technological conceptual model for minimizing waste in agro-industries, with a case study of frozen shrimp production. The results indicate that it is possible and feasible to develop an eco-industrial cluster including aquaculture, fishery processing companies, by-product plants, and wastewater treatment units. By doing so, aquaculture and industry can cooperate for environmentally sound development. Actors and institutions that may govern the proposed eco-industrial cluster of shrimp processing industry are also analysed in this paper. The economic feasibility of the designed eco-agro industrial cluster for fish production in Vietnam depends on the energy savings and effective revenues gained from selling the produced valuable materials, such as Chitosan and animal feed.
Keywords: Eco-industrial cluster; Eco-industrial park; Industrial ecology; Shrimp; Aquaculture; Shrimp processing