Emergy-based comparative analysis on industrial clusters: Economic and technological development zone of Shenyang area, China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 10243-10253

  Liu, Zhe ^a,b   Geng, Yong ^a   Zhang, Pan ^c   Dong, Huijuan ^a   Liu, Zuoxi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Emergy evaluation; Indicator; Industrial cluster

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

CHINA; LIAONING; SHENYANG;

CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUSTRY; POLLUTION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDUSTRY;

EID: 84906794193     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2854-3     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Andresen N, Bjorklund J, Rydberg T (1999) Emergy analysis of two pig production systems. Ecological animal husbandry in the Nordic countries. Proceedings from NJF-seminar No. 303 Horsens, Denmark 16-17.
2. Brandt-Williams SL (2002) Folio #4. (2nd printing). Emergy of Florida agriculture. Handbook of emergy evaluation. A compendium of data for emergy computation. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville.
3. Brown MT, Arding J (1991) Transformities working paper. Center for Wetlands. University of Florida, Gainesville.
4. Brown MT, Bardi E (2001) Folio #3. Emergy of ecosystems. Handbook of emergy evaluation. A compendium of data for emergy computation. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville.
5. Brown MT, Ulgiati S (1997) Emergy-based indices and ratios to evaluate sustainability: monitoring economies and technology toward environmentally sound innovation. Ecol Eng 9: 51-69.
6. Brown MT, Ulgiati S (2004a) Emergy analysis and environmental accounting. In: Cleveland C, editor. Encyclopedia of energy. Elsevier, Oxford, UK: Academic Press; p. 329-354.
7. Brown MT, Ulgiati S (2004b) Energy quality, emergy, and transformity: H. T. Odum's contribution to quantifying and understanding systems. Ecol Modell 178: 201-213.
8. Buenfil A (2001) Emergy evaluation of water. PhD. Dissertation, University of Florida, pp. 264.
9. Buranakarn V (1998) Evaluation of recycling and reuse of building materials using the emergy analysis method. Ph. D. thesis. University of Florida. Gainesville. FL. USA.
10. Chen QY, Song YX, Zhang PY, Ma YJ (2004) The facing problems and countermeasure of northeast industrial base for rising. Unban Plan Forum 2: 47-51 (in Chinese).
11. Cuadra M, Rydberg T (2006) Emergy evaluation on the production, processing and export of coffee in Nicaragua. Ecol Model 196: 421-433.
12. de Boer IJM, Smit HJ (2001). Embodied energy and emergy analyses in a Dutch agricultural region. In: Ulgiati S (ed) Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies. Porto Venere, Italy.
13. Doherty SJ (1995) Emergy evaluations of and limits to forest production. Ph. D dissertation, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, 115 pp.
14. Duan N, Liu X, Dai J, Lin C, Xia XH, Gao R, Wang Y, Chen SQ, Yang J, Qi J (2011) Evaluating the environmental impacts of an urban wetland park based on emergy accounting and life cycle assessment: a case study in Beijing. Ecol Model 222: 351-359.
15. Geng Y, Zhang P, Ulgiati S, Sarkis J (2010) Emergy analysis of an industrial park: the case of Dalian, China. Sci Total Environ 408: 5273-5283.
16. Geng Y, Sarkis J, Ulgiati S, Zhang P (2013) Science 339: 1526-1527.
17. Guo B, Guo JJ (2011) Patterns of technological learning within the knowledge systems of industrial clusters in emerging economies: evidence from China. Technovation 31: 87-104.
18. Jorge LH, Bakshi BR (2004) Promise and problems of emergy analysis. Ecol Model 178: 215-225.
19. Lan SF, Qin P, Lu HF (2002) Emergy evaluation of eco-economic system. Chemical Industry Press, Beijing.
20. Lei KP, Wang ZS (2008) Emergy synthesis of tourism-based urban ecosystem. J Environ Manag 88: 831-844.
21. Li LJ, Lu Hf, Ren H, Kang WL, Chen FP (2011) Emergy evaluations of three aquaculture systems on wetlands surrounding the Pearl River Estuary, China. Ecol Indic 11: 526-534.
22. Liang S, Shi L, Zhang T (2012) Achieving dewaterization in industrial parks: a case study of the Yixing Economic Development Zone. J Ind Ecol: 597-613.
23. Luchi F, Ulgiati S (2000) Energy and emergy assessment of municipal waste collection. A case study. In: Brown MT (ed) Emergy synthesis: theory and application of the emergy methodology. Proceedings from the First Biennial emergy analysis research conference. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville.
24. Lu HF (2011) Emergy and eco-exergy evaluation of four forest restoration modes in southeast China. Ecol Eng 37: 277-285.
25. Lu HF, Ye Z, Zhao XF, Peng SL (2003) A new emergy index for urban sustainable development. Acta ecol sin 23(7): 1363-1368 (in Chinese).
26. Mu HF, Xiao F, Chu KH (2011) Improved emergy indices for the evaluation of industrial systems incorporating waste management. Ecol Eng 37: 335-342.
27. Odum HT (1988b) Emergy, environmental and public policy: a guide to the analysis of system. Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 95, United Nations Environment Programme, 109pp.
28. Odum HT (1996a) Environmental accounting: emergy and environmental decision making. Wiley, New York, p 370.
29. Odum HT (1996b) Environmental accounting: emergy and environmental decision making. Wiley, New York.
30. Odum HT (2000) Folio #2. Emergy of global process. Handbook of emergy evaluation. A compendium of data for emergy computation. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville.
31. Odum HT, Brown MT, Brandt-Williams S (2000) Folio #1. Introduction and global budget. Handbook of emergy evaluation. A compendium of data for emergy computation. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville.
32. Ortega E (1998) Web table of transformity. http://www. fea. unicamp. br/docentes/ortega/curso/transformid. htm.
33. Porter ME (1998) Clusters and the new economics of competition. Harvard Business Review (November-December), 77-90.
34. Pulselli RM, Rustici M, Marchettini N (2007) An integrated framework for regional studies: emergy based spatial analysis of the Province of Cagliari. Environ Monit Assess 133: 1-13.
35. Pulselli FM, Patrizi N, Focardi S (2011a) Calculation of the unit emergy value of water in an Italian watershed. Ecol Model 222: 2929-2938.
36. Pulselli FM, Coscieme L, Bastianoni S (2011b) Ecosystem services as a counterpart of emergy flows to ecosystems. Ecol Model 222: 2924-2928.
37. Ren JM, Zhang L, Wang RS (2010) Measuring the sustainability of policy scenarios: emergy-based strategic environmental assessment of the Chinese paper industry. Ecol Complex 7: 156-161.
38. Shi L, Wang Z (2010) Eco-industrial parks in China (2000-2010). China Geological University (Social Science) 10(4): 60-66 (In Chinese).
39. Shi H, Tian JP, Chen LJ (2012) China's quest for eco-industrial parks, part I. J Ind Ecol 16(1): 8-10.
40. Tilley DR (1999) Emergy basis of forest systems. PhD dissertation. University of Florida. 310 pp.
41. Ulgiati S, Odum HT, Bastianoni S (1993) Emergy analysis of Italian agricultural system. The role of energy quality and environmental inputs. In: Bonadi, L. (Ed.). Trends in ecological physical chemistry. International workshop on ecological physical chemistry, 2. 1992. Milano. pp. 187-214.
42. UNEP (1996) Industrial estates worldwide: facts and figures. Ind Environ 19(4): 4-6.
43. Vassallo P, Bastianoni S, Beiso I, Ridolf R, Fabiano M (2007) Emergy analysis for the environmental sustainability of an inshore fish farming system. Ecol Indic 7: 290-298.
44. Yang ZF, Li SS, Zhang Y, Huang GH (2011) Emergy Synthesis for Three Main Industries in Wuyishan City, China. J Environ Inform 17(1): 25-35.
45. Zhang XH, Deng SH, Zhang YZ, Yang G, Li L, Qi H, Xiao H, Wu J, Wang YJ, Shen F (2010) Emergy evaluation of the sustainability of two industrial systems based on wastes exchanges. Resour Conserv Recycl 55: 182-195.
46. Zhang LX, Song B, Chen B (2012) Emergy-based analysis of four farming systems: insight into agricultural diversification in rural China. J Clean Prod 28: 33-44.