A Practitioners Handbook for Eco-Industrial Parks
This Practitioner’s Handbook is for governmental authorities, industrial park operators 1 and developers
seeking to implement the “An International Framework for Eco-Industrial Parks” (UNIDO, World Bank
Group and GIZ 2017) [or “the International EIP Framework”] 2 . It is also intended for development
agencies to serve as a reference point in helping governments establish their respective national EIP
Frameworks. Countries are driven by two motivations to develop and operationalize eco-industrial parks
(EIP): competitiveness and differentiation. Competitiveness will be achieved by sustaina