Sustainability key performance indicators based on industrial ecology practices for the manufacturing industries in order to sustain provisioning services
Abstract
Provisioning services are one of the significant type of ecosystem services indicating a rational human-nature relationship. Provisioning services have an imperative impact in the sustainability research due to their substantial utilization by providing water, food, fuel and other resources for the survival of mankind. However, the extensive consumption of these resources particularly in the manufacturing industries has developed a risk for the sustainability of these resources as the manufacturing industries consume more than a single provisioning services’. Consequently, it will impact people, industries and the ecosystem along with creating a disruption in the stock-flow-service nexus. In order to leverage this cascade, principles of industrial ecology and circular economy if implemented properly in the manufacturing industries can support to sustain provisioning services. Depending upon the type of provision service, a single model cannot be effective for all manufacturing industries. However, certain common sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) based on industrial ecology practices can be implemented to all manufacturing industries that are dependent upon provisioning services. This study has focused sugar and textile industries that are dependent upon extensive availability of provision services such as crops (sugarcane, cotton) and water. The KPIs have been developed to measure the circular economy practices in the sugar and textile industry. In addition, what sustainable options can be adopted at the consumers’ end, have been discussed in this study as their proactive contribution in sustaining human-nature relationship.
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