provided by, their lands. This is in part to justify expenditures in a time of limited resources. We used emergy and an … National Forest System (NFS) lands, and the natural capital residing on those lands. Environmental accounting using emergy … totaling 197 billion emdollars. Monetary values for some natural capital and ecosystem services are similar to emergy …

-perspective evaluation of agricultural activity through a study of the dairy sector in Slovenia. Socio-economic and emergy evaluation was … discrepancies in the performance of the farm types when defined by socio-economic or emergy based indicators. Standard socio …-economic evaluation favours larger conventional systems that are cost efficient and financially independent. Emergy analysis however …

(coal and minerals) decreases both the environmental and economic sustainability of the area. Emergy-based performance ….67) and sustainability (ESI=9.61). The emergy exchange ratios (exported emergy/imported emergy) are calculated to be 4.38 for … trade) and protection of natural grassland capital are more advantageous in emergy terms than the “blind” pursuit of …

loading. We suggest in this paper an assessment of the evolution of Chinese Economy based on the Emergy Accounting method …, developed by H.T. Odum in the Eighties and further refined more recently. The emergy approach is being increasingly applied … making. A set of emergy-based performance indicators was calculated with reference to the year 2009 and compared with …

with imminent destruction. In the present study emergy synthesis was applied to assess the environmental performance of a … evaluated by comparing the emergy indices along ten years in order to assess the energy flows driving the production process …, and to determine the best production model combining productivity and environmental performance. The emergy indices are …

The paper illustrates synergies between the socio-economic and emergy evaluation of agricultural activity by studying …'s dairy sector. Results indicate that socio-economic evaluation favours larger conventional systems. Emergy analysis however … emergy indicators show that small conventional farms are the poorest performers overall. Analysis of emergy flows reveals a …

metrics for use with LCAs of product systems: <i>ecological footprint</i>, <i>emergy</i>, <i>green net value added</i>, and <i …

were assessed by emergy accounting and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The system consisted of a farm with high crop diversity …