Indicators of environmental loading and sustainability of urban systems. An emergy-based environmental footprint

Viglia, Silvio; Civitillo, Dario Felice; Cacciapuoti, Gianluca; Ulgiati, Sérgio

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.03.060

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“…After examining the proposed technical, organizational and financial opportunities for applying environmental measures in the company, company executives have to formulate alternatives to the development of strategic activities, which may include different amounts of environmental protection measures, scale, implementation time, etc. The evaluation criteria are offered by many authors (Strezov et al, 2017;Lopez and Frohn, 2018;Viglia et al, 2018). The criteria should be grouped in order to determine their significance (Veleva and Ellenbecker, 2001).…”

Section: Strategic Decision Makingmentioning

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Modeling Environmental Actions of Corporate Sustainable Activity: Evidence from Lithuania

Drejeris¹,

Oželienė²

2020

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Section: Strategic Decision Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Environmental Actions of Corporate Sustainable Activity: Evidence from Lithuania

Drejeris¹,

Oželienė²

2020

CEBR

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“…The analysis of the city dynamics then proceeds by setting up a system of non-linear relations, determined by the operational feedback network. Further recent works reporting systemic analyses applied to city sustainability are from Viglia et al (2016), Agostinho et al (2018), Marvuglia et al (2018), Lee and Braham (2019), Braham et al (2019) and Ulgiati and Zucaro (2019), who also link emergy analysis to a circular economy, which is one of the hot topics in the context of urban planning. In particular, Ulgiati and Zucaro explicitly use the notion of urban metabolism (Céspedes Restrepo and Morales-Pinzón, 2018), and for all internal city processes they use a biology-based narrative for the exchange of matter and energy between the living organisms and the environment.…”

Section: The Systemic Smart Citymentioning

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The Smart Narrative of a Smart City

Gonella

2019

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The current narrative about Smart Cities is flawed on two levels. First, it describes cities whose promise of smartness is highly biased. Second, it neglects to account for the systemic nature of the urban metabolism, as well as the role of the support region of the city (in terms of its resource provision). In this contribution, I propose a short review of the mainstream Smart City narrative elements as presented by influential and authoritative sources, pointing out their detachment from the reality and from the sustainability of cities described by systemic thinking.

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“…The calculation procedure brings into the assessment also the past work performed by the biosphere to generate primary resources over time. By applying the emergy accounting method, it is possible to quantify how much environmental support is therefore needed to provide a unit (and hence the totality) of a product or service or economic wealth within a country (Geng et al, 2017;Odum, 1996;Sevegnani et al, 2016;Tian, 2016;Viglia et al, 2017;Yu et al, 2016;Zhong et al, 2016). The method was applied to a variety of processes and systems, including agricultural and industrial production, transport, household, waste management, and energy.…”

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Regional disparities in the Chinese economy. An emergy evaluation of provincial international trade

Tian

Geng

Viglia

et al. 2017

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Due to different resource endowment, geographical features, culture and population size, different regions are facing different challenges and therefore need to adopt different strategies toward sustainable development. China's Eastern, Central and Western provinces are taking different policies on international trade in order to boost their economy. This paper tries to investigate what extent a province receives a trade advantage and the corresponding environmental resource flows by employing an emergy accounting method for the period of 1993-2012. Three emergy trade indicators (Exchange Emergy Ratio, Emergy Benefit Ratio and Opportunity Ratio) were calculated along with conventional monetary indicators, to describe the benefits and losses in trade over the investigated period. The results show that the total trade volume of each province increased, but the trajectory of growth has a clear regional disparity. Eastern provinces gained economic advantages during the investigated period, while western provinces did not. The key finding is that benefits in terms of resource availability and work potential are not always in line with monetary advantages. Foreign trade partners received more advantages than their Chinese counterparts although Eastern Chinese provinces performed much better that both Central and Western Chinese provinces. Policy suggestions are then raised so that more sustainable trade policies can be prepared by considering the local realities.

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Indicators of environmental loading and sustainability of urban systems. An emergy-based environmental footprint

Cited by 60 publications

References 37 publications

Modeling Environmental Actions of Corporate Sustainable Activity: Evidence from Lithuania

Modeling Environmental Actions of Corporate Sustainable Activity: Evidence from Lithuania

The Smart Narrative of a Smart City

Regional disparities in the Chinese economy. An emergy evaluation of provincial international trade

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