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Emergy Synthesis 8 ~ Emergy and environmental accounting: Theories, applications, and methodologies
Citation:
Brown, M., Dan Campbell, AND D. Tilley. Emergy Synthesis 8 ~ Emergy and environmental accounting: Theories, applications, and methodologies. ECOLOGICAL MODELLING. Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 315:1-3, (2015).
Impact/Purpose:
This article is an editorial giving the context for and a brief description of 12 papers arising from the proceedings of Emergy Synthesis 8 that will be published as a Special Issue of Ecological Modelling. Its impact will come as a consequence of the assembled group of papers. The subjects considered should be of broad interest to the global community of scientists and cover a range of subjects from the net energy and emergy of oil from tar sands and natural gas from fracking through the consequences of the spatial and temporal structure of environmental assessments to the benefits of recycling, as well as theoretical questions related to transformity and the calculation of the emergy of flows within a system using matrix methods. Several of the assembled papers may become important in the future with resulting high impacts on the science.
Description:
With the assembly and review of the 12 research papers for this Special Issue of Ecological Modelling, our goal was to continue working with the journal to bring a strong group of papers, indicative of the forefront of emergy research, to the global energy research community and to the broader readership of Ecological Modelling. We chose to include papers in four areas of research: 1. Modeling and analysis of systems hierarchically organized in space (4 papers); 2. Emergy analysis of energy technologies (2 papers); 3. Emergy analysis of wastes and recycling (2 papers) and 4. Emergy accounting methods (4 papers). In the following paragraphs we provide a synopsis of each of the papers included in this volume.
