Post Date: 12 March 2010

Eco-Industrial Development Model in Asia Pacific

Abstract 

For decades, focus to tackle sustainability issues in industry has been in the production side until the turn of the new century that both consumption and production are put altogether in the new model. The presentation on Eco‐Industrial Development (EID) will look at how resource use efficiency, on one hand, and pollution intensity, on the other, could be integrated into a new system approach. Consumption‐oriented strategies such as LCA, &eco‐label, dfD, belign design, etc. are also synergized into the EID model.The presentation reviews the author's work in the region from late 90s and relates similar outputs in the neighboring economies in Asia Pacific. Some economies try to adopt optimization tools, with extensive need for data in MFA, SFA, LCA, and the like; while other developing economies rely heavily on the socio‐economic instruments such as market‐based economic instrument and suasive instrument.

Target audience: students and researchers in environmental economics, management, and engineering.Keywords: Eco‐industrial Development (EID), sustainable consumption and production (SCP), Conservation‐oriented Circular Economy (CCE).

Bio of Dr. Chiu

Dr. Chiu works in the fields of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), Operations Strategy, Circular Economy, and Eco‐Industrial Development (EID). He is a senior consultant and holds the rank of “international expert” in UNIDO, UNEP, UN ESCAP. In 2002 and 2009, Dr. Chiu authored the Asia Pacific Industry Papers for the Johannesburg Summit and high level UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
 

Aside from being a professor at De La Salle University; he also serves the Philippine government as an adjudicator in the equivalence of a Regional Trial Court. He is the Chairman of the Asia Pacific Roundtable for SCP (APRSCP), President‐elect of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Society (APIEMS),and the President of the Asia Pacific Business Innovation and Technology Management Society.