Emergy-based simulation to assess Brazil's long-term carrying capacity: Environment, electricity and population

Population and Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-326

  Tilley, David Rogers ^a   Comar, Vito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Emergy; Natural gas; Renewable energy; Simulation modeling; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; EMERGY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745843599     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-006-0023-4     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Brandt-Williams, S. (2002). Handbook of emergy evaluation folio 4: Emergy of Florida agriculture. Gainesville: University of Florida, Center for environmental policy, 40 pp
2. BP (2003). BP Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2003. BP Amoco. http://www.bp.com/centres/energy/downloads/index.asp Downloaded February, 2003/.
3. Brown, M. T., & Bardi, E. (2001). Handbook of emergy evaluation folio 3: Emergy of ecosystems. Gainesville: University of Florida, Center for environmental policy, 90
4. Brown, M. T., & Ulgiati, S. (2004). Energy quality, emergy, and transformity: H.T. Odum's contributions to quantifying and understanding systems. Ecological Modelling, 178, 201-213.
5. Brown, M. T., Brandt-Williams, S., Tilley, D. R., & Ulgiati, S. (Eds.) (2000). Emergy synthesis: Theory and applications of the emergy methodology. Gainesville: Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, 328 pp. (ISBN 0-9707325-0-3).
6. Brown, M. T., Odum, H. T., Tilley, D. R., & Ulgiati, S. (Eds.) (2003). Emergy synthesis 2: Theory and applications of the emergy methodology. Gainesville: University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, 432 pp. (ISBN 0-9707325-1-1).
7. Brown, M. T., Campbell, D., Comar, V., Huang, S. L., Rydberg, T., Tilley, D. R., & Ulgiati, S. (Eds.) (2005). Emergy synthesis 3: Theory and applications of the emergy methodology, Gainesville: University of Florida Center for Environmental Policy, 572 pp. (ISBN 0-9707325-2-X).
8. Brown, M. T., & Herendeen, R. A. (1996). Embodied energy analysis and emergy analysis: A comparative view. Ecological Economics, 19, 219-235.
9. Brown, M. T., & McClanahan, T. R. (1996). Emergy analysis perspectives of Thailand and Mekong River dam proposals. Ecological Modelling, 91 (1-3), 105-130.
10. Campbell, D., Meisch, M., Demoss, T., Pomponio, J., & Bradley, M. P. (2004). Keeping the books for environmental systems: An emergy analysis of West Virginia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 94, 217-230.
11. Campbell, D. E. (2004). Evaluation and emergy analysis of the Cobscook Bay ecosystem. Northeastern Naturalist, 11, 355-424.
12. Comar, V. (2005). Jau's National Park, central Brazilian Amazon: Emergy and socio-environmental assessment of resident riverine population. In M.T. Brown, D. Campbell, V. Comar, S. L. Huang, T. Rydberg, D.R. Tilley, & S. Ulgiati (Eds.), Emergy Synthesis 3: Theory and Applications of the Emergy Methodology. Gainesville: University of Florida Center for Environmental Policy, 572 pp.
13. Comar, V. (1998). Avaliação emergétical de projetos argícolas e agro-industriais no Alto Rio Pardo: A busca do desenolvimento sustentável (Emergy evaluation of agricultural and agro-industrial projects in the High Rio Pardo region: The search for sustainable development. Ph.D. dissertation, Campinas State University - UNICAMP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
14. Deffeyes, K. S. (2001). Hubbert's peak: The impending world oil shortage. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 208 pp.
15. Diemont, S. A. W., Martin, J. F., & Levy-Tacher, S. I. (2006). Emergy evaluation of Lacandon Maya indigenous swidden agroforestry in Chiapas, Mexico. Agroforestry Systems, 66, 23-42.
16. Herendeen, R. A. (2004). Energy analysis and EMERGY analysis-a comparison. Ecological Modelling, 178, 227-237.
17. Gravitis, J. (2004). Clean fuel biomass system studies based on emergy and LCA. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 227, U304-U304.
18. Gronlund, E., Klang, A., Falk, S., & Hanaeus, J. (2004). Sustainability of wastewater treatment with microalgae in cold climate, evaluated with emergy and socio-ecological principles. Ecological Engineering, 22, 155-174.
19. Kangas, R. C. (2002). Handbook of emergy evaluation folio 5: Emergy of landforms. Gainesville: University of Florida, Center for environmental policy, 16 pp
20. Meillaud, F., Gay, J. B., & Brown, M. T. (2005). Evaluation of a building using the emergy method. Solar Energy, 79, 204-212.
21. Odum, E. C. (2004). Emergy analysis of shrimp mariculture in Ecuador: A review. Ecological Modelling, 178, 239-240.
22. Odum, H. T. (1986). Energy analysis overview of Brazil. In H. T. Odum, M. T. Brown, R. A. Christianson (Eds.), Energy Systems Overview of Amazon Basin. Report to Costeau Society. Gainesville: University of Florida Center for Wetlands CFW#86-1.
23. Odum, H. T. (1988). Self organization, transformity, and information. Science, 242, 1132-1139.
24. Odum, H. T. (1996). Environmental accounting: Emergy and environmental decision making. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 370 pp.
25. Odum, H. T. (2000). Biogeochemical cycle of lead and the energy hierarchy. In: Odum, H. T., (eds). Heavy metals in the environment: using wetlands for their removal. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 326 pp.
26. Odum, H. T., Brown, M. T., & Brandt-Williams, S. (2000). Handbook of emergy evaluation folio 1: Introduction and global budget. Gainesville: University of Florida, Center for environmental policy, 16 pp
27. Odum, H. T., & Odum, E. C. (2000). Modeling for all scales: An introduction to systems and simulation. San Diego: Academic Press.
28. Romitelli, M. S. (1997). Energy analysis of watersheds. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, 292 pp.
29. Romitelli, M. S., & Odum, H. T. (1996). Energy analysis of Coweeta River basin, N.C. Final report to the U.S.D.A. Otto, NC: Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory.
30. Tilley, D. R. (2006). National metabolism and communications technology development in the United States, 1790-2000. Environment and History, 12 (2), 165-190.
31. Tilley, D. R., & Brown, M. T. (2001). Hierarchical pattern of energy diversity in ecological economic systems. In S. Ulgiati (Ed.), Advances in energy studies: Exploring supplies, constraints, and strategies, 2nd international workshop. Italy: Porto Venere - La Spezia.
32. Tilley, D. R., & Brown, M. T. (2006). Dynamic emergy accounting for assessing the environmental benefits of a subtropical wetland stormwater management system. Ecological Modelling, 192, 327-361.
33. Wang, L. M., Zhang, J. T., & Ni, W. D. (2005). Emergy evaluation of Eco-Industrial Park with Power Plant. Ecological Modelling, 189, 233-240.
34. Zuo, P., Wan, S. W., Qin, P., Du, J. J., & Wang, H. (2004). A comparison of the sustainability of original and constructed wetlands in Yancheng Biosphere Reserve, China: Implications from emergy evaluation. Environmental Science & Policy, 7, 329-343.