Emergy Accounting of Brazilian States and Regions
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چکیده
Brazil is a country of continental proportions that has significant economic, social and environmental heterogeneities within its territory. The country counts with a high support from renewable resources, a strengthened industrial park, and a large area used for livestock and crop production. The country has 26 states and a Federal District distributed geographically in five regions. In order to highlight and distinguish the differences among regions, an emergy evaluation of each state was performed and the emergy signatures are presented. Emergy indices of each state (ESI, EYR, and ELR) are presented in maps. The EMR of each state was calculated to assess the relationship between the environmental support and the economic development of each regional system. The total emergy of the country was composed by the sum of the emergies of each state, and the result was compared with literature.
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