FIFTH BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE  

January 31 - February 2, 2008
J. Wayne Reitz Union, Room 282,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

8:00  Registration

8:25 - 8:30 Opening Remarks

Emergy Systems 5 - Mark Brown

8:30 - 10:35 Session 1~Water and Watersheds 1

Emergy Evaluation of Water Cycle and Management in the Florence Area
Federico M. Pulselli, Simona Bosco, Nicoletta Patrizi and Nadia Marchettini
A System-based River Simulation: Assessment of the Mogi-Guacu River Quality
Marlei Scariot, Maria Silvia Romitelli and Enrique Ortega
Study and Analysis on Emergy Evaluation on Watershed Management of Taiwan
Chin-Pin Lee, Frederick N-F Chou, and Shan Shin Ton
Anthropic and Natural Contributions for Waste Water Purification
Paolo Vassallo, Chiara Paoli and Mauro Fabiano
Emergy Analysis Applied to the Estimation of the Recovery of Costs for Water Services under the European Water Directive Framework
Mark T. Brown, Amaya Martinez and Javier Uche

10:35-11:05 Break

11:05 - 12:45  Session 2 ~ Emergy and Ecosystems
Do Emergy Indices Tell Us Anything About Ecosystem Function?
Jana Laganis
Emergy Analysis of Tidal Freshwater Marsh and Mudflat Sportfish Communities on Anacostia River, Washington, D.C.
Peter May and Patrick Kangas
Emergy-based Evaluation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: the Case Study of Astroni Wildlife Reserve, Italy
Pier Paolo Franzese, S. Arico, S. Viglia, G.F. Russo, and Sergio Ulgiati
Emergy Synthesis of Natural Capital and Environmental Services of the United States Forest Service System
Elliott Campbell and Mark Brown

12:45 - 1:45  Lunch

1:45 - 3:50  Session 3 ~ Emergy and Economics
Is Emergy Best Suited to be Used in Ecological Economics, Environmental Economics, or with an Economic Context of its Own?
Erik Grönlund, Daniel Hedin and Per-Olof Eriksson
Valuing the Subsistence Use of Goods and Services in Louisiana Coastal Communities: Using Emergy to Analyze Non-market Activities
Amy Hunter, Ray Brassieur, Eldon Blancher and Benjamin Vivas
Human Consciousness Versus Nature's Inherence in Ecological-Economic Systems - A Proposed Method for Measuring the Tendency of Feedback Flows from Human Systems to Natural Systems by the Differences Between the Externality and Emergy Evaluations
Chung-Hsin Juan, Chih-Hung Tan, Kai-Li Chen and Ya-Ling Lo
Historical Evaluation and Analysis of the Emergy to Money Ratio for the U.S. and China
Daniel E. Campbell and Hongfang Lu
EcoLCA – An Emergy Inspired Approach and Software to Account for the Contribution of Natural Capital to Economic Activity
Yi Zhang and Bhavik R. Bakshi

3:50 - 4:20  Break

4:20 – 5:10  Session 4 ~ Theory and Conceptual Frameworks

From Transformity to Ordinality, or better: From Generative Transformity to Ordinal Generativity.
Corrado Giannantoni
Architecture Case Study in Transformity Factorization
Dennis G. Collins

5:10 - 5:25  In Memorium ~ Gonzague Pillet

6:00 – 9:30  Poster Session and Reception at the Keene Faculty Center, hosted by the Center for Environmental Policy

Landscape evaluation of the Mogi-Guacu and Pardo watershed through landscape development intensity index.
F. Agostinhoa and Enrique Ortega
Emergy analysis for small farmers
Alexandre M. Souza and Enrique Ortega
Emergy diagnosis of apple (Malus domestica) production systems in the south of Brazil
G. Francescatto, F. Agostinho, G.R. Nachtigall, A. Nobre and Enrique Ortega
Ecological footprint based on emergy: Brazil as case study
Lucas Pereira and Enrique Ortega
A systems modeling software environment for teaching and research
Thomas Abel
Emergy analysis of living green roofs
Neha Rustagi, David Tilley and John Schramski
Emergy Evaluation of a Green Cloak: a lightweight alternative to conventional green roofs
Laura Schumann and David Tilley
Measurement of the sustainability of Tropical Certified Forestry using emergy analysis
Jose-Luis Izursa, David Tilley and Patrick Kangas
Emergy evaluation of the solid waste management system called ATO CT4 in a Sicilian district
Giuseppe Siracusa, Angela Daniela La Rosa and Angelo Librante
Feasibility of using constructed treatment wetlands for municipal wastewater treatment in Columbia
Mauricio Arias and Mark Brown
Political spectrum models
David Scienceman and Dennis G. Collins
Methodological considerations from a wastewater treatment case study in Kenya
Erik Grönlund, Anders Brandén Klang, Inga Carlman and Per-Åke Vikman
A regional case study from Sweden. To what extent were the ecosystem services assessed?
Erik Grönlund and Maria Salomonsson
Sustainable growth – an oxymoron?
Robert B. Mangoyana, Inga Carlman and Erik Grönlund
Why is emergy so difficult to explain to my environmental science friends?
Erik Grönlund
An emergy comparison of different alternatives for the cogeneration of heat and electricity
Silvia Bargigli, D. Pierini, V. Cigolotti, A. Moreno, and Sergio Ulgiati
Complexity change in human-dominated systems: an emergy based Shannon indicator
Marco Ascione, L. Campanella, and Sergio Ulgiati
Emergy synthesis for evaluation of energy generation from wastewater microalgae part 1: microalgae wastewater treatment facility
Joshua N. Meyer, Leigh-Golding DeSantis and Adrienne T. Cooper
Emergy assessment of biodiesel obtained from conventional and organic soybean
Otávio Cavalett & Enrique Ortega
Emergy assessment of ethanol production from sugarcane in Brazil
Consuelo de Lima Fernandez Pereira and Enrique Ortega
Ecological viability of agro-industrial investment projects based on the emergy analysis
Raúl Siche, Lily Rodríguez, Carla Castro and Enrique Ortega
Emergy evaluation of ethanol production from wheat in Henan Province
Xiaobin Dong, Sergio Ulgiati, Maochao Yan, and Wangsheng Gao

Friday, February 1,2008

8:30 - 10:10  Session 5 ~ Agricultural and Rural Systems
General Model for On-line Emergy Analysis of Agricultural Systems
Fabio Takahashi, Enrique Ortega, Teldes Albuquerque and Mileine Zanghetin
The Ranching for Sustainability Club: Grass Roots Change for Dairy Production in Chiapas, Mexico
Stewart Diemont, Bruce Ferguson, Rigoberto Alfaro
Emergy value of mass flows in a tropical ecosystem, as native forest and as sugar-cane plantation
Marcos Djun-Barbosa Watanabe and Enrique Ortega
Proposal to review the emergy indices for a proper assessment of sustainable rural systems
Enrique Ortega, José Maria Gusman, Luis A. Ambrosio, Paulo Beskow, Luis Antonio Margarido and Fabio Takahashi


10:10 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 12: 45  Session 6 ~ Biofuels

Emergy Synthesis for Evaluation of Energy Generation from Wastewater Microalgae Part 2: Energy Production from Microalgae
Leigh-Golding DeSantis, Joshua N. Meyer, and Adrienne T. Cooper
Emergy Analysis of a Pyrolysis Process
Kaushlendra Singh, E. W. Tollner, Sudhagar Mani, L. Mark Risse, K. C. Das, and John Worley
Perpetuation of Partial Transformities through Sequential Analyses for Refined Emergy Accounting and Index Development
David Tilley and Erika Felix
A Comprehensive Life Cycle Energy, Exergy and Emergy Analysis of Transportation Fuels from Biomass
Anil Baral and Bhavik R. Bakshi

12:45 - 1:45  Lunch

1:45 - 3:50  Session 7 ~ Power and Industrial Production
Emergy Synthesis of Chinese Magnesium Production - A Case of "Maximum Power" at Work
Marco Raugei, Sergio Ulgiati and F. Cherubini
Emergy of Gold Mined at Yanacocha, Peru
Wesley W. Ingwersen
Emergy Synthesis of Wind Generation in Florida
Stacey Dolan
Emergy Assessment of Wildlife Impacts due to Wind Power Generation
David Riposo and Patrick Kangas
An approach to solar technologies efficiency evaluation
Chiara Paoli, Paolo Vassallo, Mauro Fabiano

3:50-4:20  Break

4:20-6:25  Session 8 ~ Humans, Built Environments and Society
Emergy and Information: from biodiversity to social networks
Mark Brown
Testing Principles of Spatial Hierarchy: What Households Research Has to Say
Thomas Abel
Emergy Basis for Human Service
Daniel E. Campbell and Hongfang Lu
Emergy Synthesis as an Evaluation Tool for Resiliency and Sustainability of Urban Infrastructure
Adrienne T. Cooper and Nii Attoh-Okine
Data Collection, Assumptions, and Synthesis for Comparative Embodied Energy Analysis for Green Engineering
John Schramski, David Tilley and T.L. Carter

7:00 – 9:30  Open House – Betty Odum’s House

Saturday, February 2, 2008

MEET IN NEB 202

9:00 -11:05  Session 9 ~ Sustainability and Future Prosperity
The measure of unsustainability in emergy evaluation
Simone Bastianoni, Riccardo M. Pulselli, Fazio Coppola and Valentina Niccolucci
Vivantary Respsonsibility and the Thermodynamics of Quality: Foundations for a New Ethics for Business and the Environment
Donald L. Adolphson and Eldon Franz
A Call to Empower Gaia
Cornelius Crane and William Perk
Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Emergy Accumulation
Rydberg, Torbjörn and Daniel. A. Bergquist
Emergy and a Policy of the Commons
Sergio Ulgiati, Amalia Zucaro and Pier Paolo Franzese

11:05-11:20  Break

11:20-12:30  Conference Discussion Session

12:30-2:00  Lunch and First meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (lunch provided by ISAER)

3:00  Field trip to the Odum Cypress Dome (bring shoes/pants that can get dirty)

7:00 – 00:00  Party at Mark Brown and Carol Binello’s House

The schedule in PDF format.

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