Provincial level-based emergy evaluation of crop production system and development modes in China

Jin, Tao; Fu, Meichen; Zheng, Xinqi; Zhang, Jianjun; Zhang, Dingxuan

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.01.014

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“…The evaluation indicators of economic development include EDR and EYR. EDR is the ratio of total emergy use and industrial added value of the park in one year (Ascione, et al, 2009;Tao et al, 2013).…”

Section: Sustainable Development Indicator (Esi)mentioning

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An approach to stimulate the sustainability of an eco-industrial park using coupled emergy and system dynamics

Zhao

Xiang

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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In this paper, we study the emergy evaluation index system of the sustainable development of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (SETDZ) by system dynamics model, and employ the simulation of dynamic evaluation analysis. By the simulation of system dynamics model, four SETDZ's development scenarios are designed, including inertia scenario, economic scenario, environmental protection scenario and science and technology scenario, and the sustainable development status of each scenario is simulated and dynamically evaluated. The results show that under the background of coordinated development of economy and environment, science and technology scenario based on high-tech investment is the most dynamic, and it also is the best development strategy of SETDZ. Furthermore, SETDZ could achieve the coordinated development of economy and environment by reasonable layout of industrial enterprises, integration of public resources, effective utilization and disposal of waste, establishment of enterprise symbiosis system, development of cleaner production and other measures.

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Section: Sustainable Development Indicator (Esi)mentioning

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An approach to stimulate the sustainability of an eco-industrial park using coupled emergy and system dynamics

Zhao

Xiang

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…As detailed below, this work is also one of the few ones addressing organic vegetable productions. At a country level, EMA has been so far applied to conduct evaluations of national agriculture in China (Chen et al, 2006;Tao et al, 2013;, Denmark (Rydberg & Haden, 2006), India and Pakistan (Ali et al, 2019), Korea (Lee et al, 2005); Japan (Gasparatos, 2011); Puerto Rico (González-Mejía & Ma, 2017, Poland (Lewandowska-Czarnecka et al, 2019, and the United States of America (Park et al, 2016). At a regional or provincial level, Lefroy and Rydberg (2003) focused on three crops in southwestern Australia; Wang et al (2007) studied petroleum-based agriculture in the Shandong region, China; De Barros et al (2009) evaluated the banana production in Guadalupe, Antilles; Agostinho et al (2010) explored the agricultural economic sector of São Paulo state, Brazil, while Ghisellini et al (2014) did the same for regions Campania and Emilia Romagna, Italy; three cropping systems in the Pampa Region, Argentina, were addressed by Ferraro and Benzi (2015); and Su et al (2020) have recently assessed three types of agricultural production in Tongxiang, China.…”

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Organic vegetables from community-supported agriculture in Italy: Emergy assessment and potential for sustainable, just, and resilient urban-rural local food production

Cristiano

2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the interconnectedness and vulnerability of human systems, requiring integrated interdisciplinary studies aimed at breaking unsustainable and unjust practices. In this work, a horticultural collaborative production system is addressed, inspired by the community-supported agriculture (CSA) model. In a highly industrialised area of Northern Italy, with significant wild land consumption, an alternative bottom-up experience is described for the provision of vegetables in a short and cooperative not-for-sale supply chain. Local organic farming and just labour conditions seek ecological sustainability and social equity beyond market dynamics. This CSA project contributes to the resilience of a territory currently affected by health and economic plights. Its claims, limits, and potentials of a project of this kind are investigated for the first time by means of the Emergy Assessment (EMA). The socio-ecological and economic inputs in the system at issue are identified and quantified, partly eased by the transparent process of the target community, and some key indicators are calculated. This EMA provides fruitful insights of a single replicable and/or scalable project, thus offering current barrier and future opportunities for local improvement and exportability to crisis and post-crisis scenarios, and anyway for pursuing sustainability goals.

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“…Subsequently, it has been widely used to assess agricultural systems with different scales. Since the 2000s, the emergy method has been used in the analysis of crop production to investigate the resource use, productivity, environmental impact, and overall sustainability, which includes regional crop production systems such as provincial crop systems in China [16] and Italy [5], specific cropping systems including fruit planting [17], grain cultivation [18,19], and coffee plantations [20], bioethanol production from wheat [21,22], and biodiesel production systems [23,24]. All these studies have formed a good basis for the standardization of the emergy method in evaluating a crop production system, providing benchmark values of flows and indicators to guide future work.…”

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An Emergy and Decomposition Assessment of China’s Crop Production: Sustainability and Driving Forces

Liu

Wang

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With a growing demand for crop products in China, a great deal of local resources and industrial inputs are consumed including agricultural machineries, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and energies, which results in many environmental issues such as resource depletion, water pollution, soil erosion and contamination, and CO2 emissions. Thus, this study evaluated the trend of sustainability of China’s crop production from 1997 to 2016 in terms of emergy and further explored the driving forces using decomposition analysis methods. The results showed that the total emergy used (U) increased by 50% from 7.82 × 1023 in 1997 to 1.17 × 1024 solar emergy Joule (sej) in 2016. Meanwhile, the values of the emergy sustainability index (ESI) were all smaller than one with a declining trend year by year, indicating that China’s crop production system is undergoing an unsustainable development pattern. From the results of the ESI decomposition, the renewable resource factor (R/GDP) and land use factor (L/A) are two key factors impeding the sustainable development of the crop production system. Therefore, the increased capacity of renewable resources and enough labor forces engaged in crop production will be the key strategies for its sustainable development.

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Provincial level-based emergy evaluation of crop production system and development modes in China

Cited by 35 publications

References 32 publications

An approach to stimulate the sustainability of an eco-industrial park using coupled emergy and system dynamics

An approach to stimulate the sustainability of an eco-industrial park using coupled emergy and system dynamics

Organic vegetables from community-supported agriculture in Italy: Emergy assessment and potential for sustainable, just, and resilient urban-rural local food production

An Emergy and Decomposition Assessment of China’s Crop Production: Sustainability and Driving Forces

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