Urban Strategies Enabling Industrial and Urban Symbiosis: The Case of Slovenia

Industrial symbiosis (IS) recognizes the exchange of waste resources and by-products between companies that do not normally cooperate in resource exchange; on other hand, urban (UrS) use solid cities as input sources for industries accept these sources. It is difficult to realize both a pre-planned process, there are few successful initiatives based energy. The main objective this research find out whether strategies support emergence, existence development IS and/or UrS Slovenia. National documents, networks, projects, programs, national statistical were examined. Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies (ISUSD) eleven municipalities reviewed against ten selected indicators. findings intense awareness raising UrS, adequate overall legislative support, aligned with EU legislation. Nevertheless, has been surprisingly less conversion energy recovery since 2010. reuse either or new products non-existent negligible. Selected Slovenia far from setting more concrete guidelines UrS. In future, integration possible context regeneration brownfield sites.