Areas Based on Eco-Industrial Network Concept Case Study: Chenaran Industrial State

Increasing industrial activities in and around cities causes many environmental problems and threatens human health. These days, one of the main problems with cities results from urban fringe industrial activities in these areas. This issue can be seen especially in big cities, so that naturally efficient landscapes can be seen only a long distance from these cities. The main problems in such areas are pollution, landscape fragmentation, land structure deformation, and decrease in natural mechanisms.
In order to come up with solutions to these problems, some strategies, policies and practices are required. In this regard, landscape planning and design can play an important role. Using the concept of ecology in industrial development has generated the concept of industrial ecosystem based on natural ecosystem patterns and processes. Following this analogy, the conceptual strategies of an eco-industrial network, which is an organized form of the industrial ecosystem, can greatly help us to overcome these problems.
Findings: This research investigates the concepts of industrial ecology and eco-industrial networks and applies those concepts to the environmental rehabilitation of an existing industrial area in northwestern industrial area of Mashhad and Chenaran Industrial state.
In this regard, we have tried to consider this concept in various scales of landscape. Finally, using conceptual plans, strategies for improving the quality of landscape and environment in this area have been provided.