The rapid development of industrial ecology parks is indicative of one practical pattern of theories and methods in industrial ecology. They severely affect the development of the modern society. In this paper, through adopting the social network analysis method, we could go into the interior of symbiosis networks and construct a cascading model on symbiosis networks of industrial ecology parks by using complex theory. Under the model, we then provide some evaluation indicators to evaluate nodes’ power and status and analyze quantitatively the vulnerability against cascading failures in symbiosis networks according to a new framework. All these analyses and results could support the study of eco-industrial parks in methods and technology and help us to promote the construction of symbiosis networks of industrial ecology parks, especially improve the reliability and robustness.
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