Monitoring and evaluating the sustainability of Italian agricultural system. An emergy decomposition analysis

Ghisellini, Patrizia; Zucaro, Amalia; Viglia, Silvio; Ulgiati, Sérgio

doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.02.014

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“…Thus, it cannot embody indirect flows outside the system boundary Reap et al, 2008). Other evaluation methods, such as Carbon Footprint, Water Footprint, and Energy Analysis, focus on individual parameters of resource use, leading to incomplete understanding on the overall resource use and failure of uncovering related driving forces (Ghisellini et al, 2014;Ukidwe and Bakshi, 2004;Valipour, 2014b;Yu et al, 2015). In addition, the indicator systems proposed by these methods are based on user-side human preference values, while donor-side perspectives, namely the investment from nature, cannot be reflected, resulting in the ignorance of ecosystem's contribution to economic development.…”

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Emergy-based sustainability assessment on natural resource utilization in 30 Chinese provinces

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confidence: 98%

Emergy-based sustainability assessment on natural resource utilization in 30 Chinese provinces

Geng

Dong

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The knowledge of the major factors that affect a process' performance is essential for the design of new policy instruments and the evaluation of the implemented measures over a desired pattern of sustainability [60,61]. Moreover, decomposition analysis is necessarily dealing with complex indicators to avoid the loss of information [62,63].…”

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Emergy-Based Regional Socio-Economic Metabolism Analysis: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Decomposition Analysis

2014

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Integrated analysis on socio-economic metabolism could provide a basis for understanding and optimizing regional sustainability. The paper conducted socio-economic metabolism analysis by means of the emergy accounting method coupled with data envelopment analysis and decomposition analysis techniques to assess the sustainability of Qingyang city and its eight sub-region system, as well as to identify the major driving factors of performance change during 2000-2007, to serve as the basis for future policy scenarios. The results indicate that Qingyang greatly depended on non-renewable emergy flows and feedback (purchased) emergy flows, except the two sub-regions, named Huanxian and Huachi, which highly depended on renewable emergy flow. Zhenyuan, Huanxian and Qingcheng were identified as being relatively emergy efficient, and the other five sub-regions have potential to reduce natural resource inputs and waste output to achieve the goal of efficiency.The results of decomposition analysis show that the economic growth, as well as the increased emergy yield ratio and population not accompanied by a sufficient increase of resource utilization efficiency are the main drivers of the unsustainable economic model in Qingyang and call for polices to promote the efficiency of resource utilization and to optimize natural resource use.

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“…However, the academic circles mainly adopted the methods of comprehensive index evaluation, multivariate statistical analysis and so on. System dynamics [15], Emergy analysis [16,17], Grey relational analysis [18], and so on are applied to the sustainable development of agricultural systems. Cahya [19] quantitatively analyzed the characteristics of Metropolitan Jakarta's sustainable development of urban agriculture through multidimensional scale (MDS) methods.…”

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Measurement of Regional Agricultural Sustainable Development System Based on Dissipative Structure Theory: A Case Study in Sichuan Province, China

2017

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Aiming at the sustainable development issue of agriculture, the regional agricultural sustainable development system is regarded as a complex giant dissipative system in this paper by using the theory of dissipative structure. In order to effectively measure the coordinated development status and orderly evolution trend of the system, the more comprehensive and scientific index system was constructed from the framework of economy, society, technology, resource and environment (ESTRE). The measurement model of the system was constructed by using the method of information entropy, and an empirical analysis of Sichuan province from 2005 to 2015 was conducted. The results show that with the advancement of the years, the agricultural sustainable development system in Sichuan province is evolving in a more orderly and coordinated direction. The measurement results are in agreement with the actual situation and verify the effectiveness of the system measurement model in the regional agricultural sustainable development measure.

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Monitoring and evaluating the sustainability of Italian agricultural system. An emergy decomposition analysis

Cited by 76 publications

References 29 publications

Emergy-based sustainability assessment on natural resource utilization in 30 Chinese provinces

Emergy-based sustainability assessment on natural resource utilization in 30 Chinese provinces

Emergy-Based Regional Socio-Economic Metabolism Analysis: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Decomposition Analysis

Measurement of Regional Agricultural Sustainable Development System Based on Dissipative Structure Theory: A Case Study in Sichuan Province, China

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