Marine natural capital is an important component of yields goods and service flows benefiting the human being. The emergy analysis method allows one to account for mass, energy money in ecosystem, providing technical support assessing its broader value regarding our economic dependence. Thus, we used this evaluate Zhoushan archipelago sea area from 2011 2016 proposed a formula estimate marine o...

The world is now facing difficulties such as climate change, energy consumption and economic crisis and the green growth is commonly used as a solution to overcome that difficulties. To achieve the green growth eco-efficiency is a very important key. Studies on eco-efficiency have been done by others using financial value of product which cannot show the real value of the product. In this study...

If life cycle oriented methods are to encourage sustainable development, they must account for the role of ecosystem goods and services, since these form the basis of planetary activities and human well-being. This article reviews methods that are relevant to accounting for the role of nature and that could be integrated into life cycle oriented approaches. These include methods developed by ec...

We assessed the total energy required to manufacture, install and maintain an extensive, sedumplanted green roof over its assumed life of 20 years in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. using the method of emergy analysis. We estimated its environmental benefits as the sum of summer electricity savings due to cooler building temperatures, primary production of biomass and reduction in intensity...

Landscape Development Intensity (LDI) values were calculated for selected land uses within the Bayou Meto Watershed (BMW), Arkansas, USA, using existing land use data and annual measures of non-renewable energy use per unit area, as part of an effort to assess the effect of the surrounding land use on the condition of floodplain forested wetlands. Level 2 land use categories from the 1999 Arkan...

Environmental pollution and energy crisis restrict the development of China, and the utilization of renewable technology is an effective strategy to alleviate the damage. Biogas engineering has rapidly developed attributes to solve environmental problems and create a renewable energy product biogas. In this paper, two different biogas plants' materials were analyzed by emergy method. One of the...

The main problem in assessing coral reef ecosystems is selecting the right method to describe their ecological potential. percentage of live cover has so far been used indicate condition reefs. This assessment easy apply but not able value ecosystem for benefit loss or damage ecosystems. Further analysis based on energy use delivery services needed, which called Emergy analysis. study aims dete...