Environmental Engineering

Abstract

One of the most important factors leading to success of a regional/national cleaner (sustainable) production strategy is sector-focused approach.Due to limited resources and other constraints, it is a necessity to make a prioritization between sectors for cleaner (sustainable) production practices.Thus, within the scope of this study, manufacturing industry sub-sectors in İzmir and in Turkey were prioritized based on various criteria.The results should assist policy makers in the preparation of related sectoral roadmaps and action plans.The prioritization of manufacturing industry sub-sector was accomplished via Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method with the integration of recent available data and by taking feedback from the stakeholders.Investigation of the sectoral priorities was carried out both at regional (İzmir) and national (Turkey) level.The criteria used in prioritization of manufacturing industry sub-sectors in İzmir were water and energy consumption, amount of wastewater discharged, amount of solid waste and hazardous waste generated, greenhouse gas emissions, Herfindahlv Hirschman Index (statistical measure of market concentration), sectoral employment, number of companies, export share, added value and suitability for cleaner (sustainable) production.In the prioritization analysis of Turkey all of the aforementioned criteria for İzmir except Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, number of companies and added value were used.Based on the results of this study, the top five high priority industrial sectors for cleaner (sustainable) production practices in İzmir are basic metal industry, food products and beverages, chemicals and chemical products, other non-metallic mineral products and coke and refined petroleum.In the sectoral prioritization analysis for cleaner (sustainable) production in Turkey textile industry takes the place of coke and refined petroleum.These sectors coincide with the priority sectors identified based on different purposes by other regional and national institutions.

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