Agricultural production operates via the existing relationships between nature and economy. Its sustainable development requires tools that provide a broad vision of energy flows intervene in these systems, to support decision-making process management. To quantify environmental resources economic inputs involved, emergy analysis has been used, as well modeling, make detailed record system inpu...

This paper focuses on the sustainable exploration of building systems, which combines ecological concepts and low-carbon designs for a comprehensive sustainability assessment investigation. The study employed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)-Emergy (LCA)-Carbon emission methods to discuss range topics, including main contributing factors, index verification, sensitivity analysis, potential improveme...

The lack of quantitative data of landscape use can affect in a negative form the elaboration of public policy related to land occupation for agricultural or urban purposes. Some tools can be used for this purpose, but only emergy approach is able to account all energy inputs (from nature and economy). In this sense, the Landscape Development Intensity Index (LDI) that uses emergy synthesis as b...

Different sustainability indicators tend to reflect different or even converse outcomes in terms of countries. A careful comparative study is needed to clarify whether these indicators are actually coherent with each other. We analyze and compare five sustainable development indicators. Pearson correlation was used to make a comparative study among them. Within the two groups, the indicators ar...

The emergy evaluation of the Ladakh socio-economic system and traditional agriculture is presented. Ladakh is a region of West Himalaya (State of Jammu and Kashmir, northern India), geographically classified as “high cold desert” (altitude ranging from 2300 m to 7672 m a.s.l.), located among the Karakoram Range, the Himalayan Range and the Tibetan Plateau. The region is poor in natural resource...

Water and wastewater treatment plants are essential for the supply of drinking water consumption effluents produced by human/industrial activities. However, few studies deal with investments sustainability these services, which consider both contribution nature society. This study uses emergy approach to evaluate a plant located in northeastern part Romania, Iași city. An assessment environment...

The agroecological economic system is the basic on which human beings depend for survival. In order to better evaluate operation status of a regional and deepen cognition input output from angle emergy, evaluation method sustainable development with comprehensive consideration resources, economy, environment was proposed by constructing unified dimensional measurement model. This paper analyzed...