Industrial symbioses: Strategies and dilemmas seen in an industrial and regional planning perspective

This is about the development of industrial parks that promote value creation, efficient, sustainable and circular energy and material flows. Planning is also about ensuring a space-friendly location in relation to nature and the environment, and a favourable location in relation to local infrastructure and settlements. Today's business park planning is based on promoting circularity, and that is conditional on which businesses are invited, co-located and connected.  It is about finding the recipe for robust industrial solutions that benefit sustainable social development, while commercial "mayflies" are weeded out. "New" types of infrastructure and types of workplaces in these parks will also constitute relevant planning topics. The empirical data includes industrial parks in different phases of development, illustrating various dilemmas and complex conditions related to the planning process. Regulatory roles, prerequisites and experience with this type of establishment constitute important components of the planning work. 

Industrial symbioses can be linked to the restructuring of existing industrial clusters, but also to the construction of completely new parks.  The project is part of a book in progress linked to the course titled Regional planning and Role Understanding Complex Planning Situations. This is digital continuing and further education education program organized by geographers at University of Bergen, the University of Agder and NTNU. The course is in Norwegian.