Ecological economic system emergy analysis

Author: Lan Shengfang
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book is a monograph that elaborates on the principles, methods, and applications of emergy quantitative analysis in ecological economic systems. It comprehensively discusses new concepts and theories of system emergy analysis; introduces emergy analysis and evaluation methods for various ecological economic systems, environmental resources, energy, economic development, information, and services. It particularly focuses on the emergy comprehensive analysis of system energy flow, material flow, value flow, and information flow, as well as the unified evaluation of environment and economy. It explores various value systems; presents emergy analysis research cases in China and international research trends. The book is rich in content, innovative in methods, combines theory with practice, and is easy to understand. It is applicable for planners and managers; it can also serve as reference material for graduate students in system ecology, ecological economics, or sustainable development strategies.