[材料科学]Ch6 - EIP Handbook.pdfVIP

6 The Emerging Sustainable Economy and EIP Recruitment 6.1 Introduction Developing a competitive eco-industrial estate or park requires awareness of fundamental trends in the global economy as well as within one‘s national and local economy. An EIP must attract and retain profitable tenants serving both emerging and established market sectors at these different economic levels. Eco- industrial parks themselves are one example of the sort of real estate development indicated by this emerging economy. There are many signs that the global economy in its present form is unsustainable. Recent decades have demonstrated increasingly unequal sharing of wealth and income between and within both developed and developing countries. If income gaps continue to increase, who will be the customers in an increasingly productive industrial system? Climate change, local air pollution, loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, degradation of farm land, and massive depletion and waste of natural resources are some of the environmental signs of the system‘s failure to respect the natural constraints upon human activity. In addition, major challenges to the present practices of the global economy are coming from within its establishment as well as from the streets. The World Bank has been host to two of the most notable economists of sustainable development: Herman Daly and Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel economist. Both Daly and Sen offer powerful arguments for development as a means, not as an end in itself that takes precedence over environmental and human values. The activists who protested the World Trade Organization in Seattle and the World Bank in Washington are continuing to organize resistance to the negative aspects of globalization. They are themselves empowered by the World Wide Web, which provides both them and the corporations with global channels of communication. At the same time, some advanced corporate leaders are charting their companies path in