SIXTH BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE  

January 14 - January 16, 2010
J. Wayne Reitz Union, Room 282,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Click here for a map of meeting locations. Directions in also available here.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

18:00 - 21:00 Pre-Registration and Open House, Center for Environmental Policy, Phelps Lab

Thursday, January 14, 2010

7:30 Check-in and Registration
8:20 Opening Welcome - Cammy Abernathy, Dean, College of Engineering
8:20 Opening Remarks - Emergy Synthesis 6 – Mark Brown

8:30 - 10:10 Session 1 ~ Theory and Conceptual Frameworks

Agent based emergy analysis:  A Lagrangian model of energy memory
Caner Kazanci, John R. Schramski, Simone Bastianoni, and Bill Tollner
Emergy analysis and ecological footprint: drawing a parallel between the methodologies for a sub-national case study
Lucas Pereira and Enrique Ortega
Critical review of the usage of transformity values in recent studies
Nana Yaw Amponsah and Olivier Le Corre
Towards a database of unit emergy values
Sergio Ulgiati, Pedro Lomas, Silvio Viglia, Pan Zhang, and Amalia Zucaro
Human labor and services in emergy evaluation at different scales
Simone Bastianoni and Federico M. Pulselli

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:40  Session 2 ~ Agricultural and Rural Systems

Emergy-based environmental impact assessment for urban metabolic process:  a case study of Beijing, 1999-2006
Gengyuan Liu, Zhifeng Yang, and Bin Chen
Small scale community based management of marine resources vs. large scale industrial aquaculture in Chile – consequences and methodological implications
Charlotte Lagerberg Fogelberg and Daniel A. Bergquist
Emergy Synthesis of Urban Agriculture
Daniel A. Bergquist
Emergy evaluation of an extensive cattle ranching system in Pantanal
watershed, Brazil
Fabio Takahashi, S. Santos, U. Abreu, and Enrique Ortega

12:40 - 13:40  Lunch

13:40 - 15:20  Session 3 ~ Economic and Social Systems

Epistemological comparative analysis of neoclassical and biophysical economics:  A valuation study of wetlands utilization of wastewater treatment using money, embodied energy, and emergy analyses
Jae-Young Ko and Charles A.S. Hall
Emergy evaluation of circular economy system
Lungmei Wang, Yanchun Jia, and Enlong Meng
Culture in information cycles:  An emergy evaluation of conversation
Thomas Abel
Human service emergy delivery rates for native cultures
Stewart A.W. Diemont

15:20-15:45 Break

15:45 - 17:20  Session 4 ~ Biofuels

Critical analysis of the Swedish biofuels policy using emergy synthesis
Otávio Cavalett and Torbjörn Rydberg
Emergy evaluation of an integrated bioenergy production system:  The case study of Enkoping (Sweden)
Elvira Buonocore, Pier Paolo Franzese, Torbjörn Rydberg, and Sergio Ulgiati
The prediction of ecological potential for developing salt-tolerant oil plants on coastal saline land in Sheyang Saltern, China
Zhouran Li, Gang Li, and Pei Qin

18:00 - 19:00  Smathers Library, Grand Reading Room, 2nd Floor

18:00-18:20  Music by Dale Crider, Sneak Peek at the H.T. Odum Collection, Refreshments
18:20-18:30  John Nemmers – Greetings and talk about H.T. Odum Collection
18:30-19:00  Tours and socializing

19:00 DINNER on your own

Friday, January 15, 2010

8:30 - 10:35 Session 5 ~ Theory and Conceptual Frameworks

The maximum ordinality principle:  A harmonious dissonance
Corrado Giannantoni
Emergy quantification of educational attainment in the U.S. and the emergy signature of the nation from 1940 to 2007
Daniel E. Campbell, Hongfang Lu, and Kacy Kolb
Dynamic emergy accounting:  a review, mathematical revisions, and implications for modeling emergy recycling
David R. Tilley
Some continuous empower2 models
Dennis G. Collins
New emergy indices for a prosperous way down
Enrique Ortega

10:35-11:00 Break

10:30 - 12:10  Session 6 ~ Agricultural and Rural Systems

Emergy synthesis of ecosystem service in agricultural land:  a case study of Taoyuan area, Taiwan
Ying-Chieh Lee and Shu-Li Huang
Emergy assessment of Cinta Senese breeding and comparison with conventional pig production
Benedetto Rugani, Federico M. Pulselli, and Valentina Niccolucci
Energy self-sufficiency from an emergy perspective exemplified by a model system of a Danish farm
Ostergård, H. and Markussen, M. V.
Eco-efficiency evaluation for automobile and bicycle as personal transportation
Hija Kim, Munbo Choi, Daeseok Kang, and Sukmo Lee

12:40 - 13:40  Lunch

13:40 - 15:20  Session 7 ~ Agricultural and Rural Systems

Emergy accounting of an integrated grazing-milking system in Argentina’s Pampas
Gloria C. Rótolo , Verónica Charlon , and Pier Paolo Franzese
The use of emergy for measuring the environmental costs and benefits of agricultural practices in Scotland
Robin W. Burgess, C.F.E. Topp, and G.R. Squire
Emergy evaluation and modeling of ecological and economic benefit of different grassland mode in north China
Xiaobin Dong, Mark T. Brown, David Pfahler, Maochao Yan, and Xinshi Zhang
Future directions for emergy:  Lessons from developments in other fields of environmental accounting
Wesley Ingwersen

15:02-15:45 Break

15:45 - 17:25  Session 8 ~ Regional Systems

Emergy synthesis of Albania for 2007
Pëllumb Harizaj
Energy systems diagramming as the link to merge systems theory with discourse analysis – the case of large scale biofuel production
Torbjörn Rydberg and Otávio Cavalett
Investigating thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of a territorial system through empower
Riccardo M. Pulselli, P. Romano, and E. Tiezzi
Estimating payments for environmental services of a Brazilian sub-basin
Maria Silvia Romitelli and Marlei Roling Scariot

18:00 - 21:30  Poster Session and Conference Banquet
Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall, hosted by the Center for Environmental Policy

POSTERS PRESENTED:
Assessment of emergy indices dynamics on agricultural production of Mogi-Guacu and Pardo watershed, Brazil
Feni Agostinho, Luis Alberto Ambrósio, and Enrique Ortega
Forest recovering model:  An application
Teldes C. Albuquerque, Thiago J. Roncon, and Enrique Ortega
Use of emergy analysis in comparing hydrogen production via steam methane reforming and electrolysis
Nana Yaw Amponsah and Olivier Le Corre
Emergy in labor – approaches for evaluating embodied knowledge
Daniel A.Bergquist, Wes Ingwersen, and Danielle King Liebenow
Water hyacinth growth dynamics in eutrophic water
Luz S. Buller, Thiago J. Roncon, Ivan Bergier, and Enrique Ortega
The emergy baseline for the earth:  Is it arbitrary?
Daniel E. Campbell, S. Bastianoni, and Hong-Fang Lu
A rapid method for quantifying the empower density of states:  Application of the LDI to Minnesota and Maryland
Daniel E. Campbell, Sherry Brandt-Williams, Denis White, and Elliott T. Campbell
The emprint:  A snapshot of system condition on the road to sustainability
Daniel E. Campbell, Denis White, Sharlynn Sweeney, A. Pizzagallo, Simone Bastianoni, Hong-Fang Lu, Mark T. Brown, Federico M. Pulselli, Wesley Ingwersen, David R. Tilley and Elliott T. Campbell
Emergy synthesis for valuing the hydrologically driven ecosystem services of
forest lands
Elliott Campbell and David R. Tilley
Emergy indices for assessing vulnerability
Li-Fang Chang and Shu-Li Huang
Changing the paradigms to change the climate
Ari N.R. Costa and Enrique Ortega
Emergy accounting of a coffee farm in the Brazilian savannah
B.F. Giannetti, Y. Ogura, S.H. Bonilla, and Cecilia M.V.B. Almeida
Emergy synthesis of food consumption pattern change in Taiwan
Ying-Chen Lin and Shu-Li Huang
Comparison of emergy indices for horticultural production through conventional and organic methods in the county of Ibiúna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elisa Sayoko Nakajima, Antonio Nobre, and Enrique Ortega
Emergy evaluation of landfills for methane generation, recoverability, and sustainability
Smiti Nepal and Elliott T. Campbell
Emergy evaluation of a green façade
Jeffrey W. Price and David R. Tilley
Emergy study of worldwide biogeochemical formation of fossil fuels
Gaetano Protano and Sergio Ulgiati
Modeling the Pantanal ecosystem
Maria Silvia Romitelli and Marlei Roling Scariot
Integrated systems for food, ethanol and environmental services production in land reform settlements
Alexandre Souza and Enrique Ortega
Ecological evaluation of preserved forest’s biodiversity, ecosystems functions and environmental services
Thiago J. Roncon and Enrique Ortega
Exploring resource use and biophysical constraints of Scottish agriculture at regional and national scales
Silvio Viglia, Amalia Zucaro, Pier Paolo Franzese, Kirsty L. Blackstock, Keith B. Matthews, and Sergio Ulgiati
A comparison of the total emergy requirements and human risks of treating municipal wastewater to background conditions using conventional systems and wetlands
Brandon K. Winfrey and David R. Tilley
Two different nursery propagation methods for submerged aquatic vegetation restoration:  Evaluation using emergy analysis
Elizabeth K. Zinecker
Emergy evaluation of Italian agriculture across space and time scales
Amalia Zucaro, Silvio Viglia, and Sergio Ulgiati

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Note location change...MEET IN NEB 100

8:30 -10:35  Session 9 ~ Theory and Conceptual Frameworks

Fundamental challenges of using emergy to quantify resource consumption
Kyrke Gaudreau, Roydon A. Fraser, and Stephen Murphy
An uncertainty model for emergy
Wesley Ingwersen
“Quantus” emergy
Mark T. Brown
The environmental value of the earth’s biomes
Sherry Brandt-Williams and Mark T. Brown
The ‘locations’ of people and households within a culture-nature energy transformation hierarchy in Hualien County, Taiwan
Thomas Abel

10:35-11:00  Break

11:00 -11:50  Session 10 ~ Forest Systems

Emergy and exergy evaluation of four forest restoration modes in low subtropical China
 Hong-Fang Lu, Zhuo-Han Wang, Daniel E. Campbell, and Bin Chen
Ecological-economic evaluation of environmental services of mangrove wetlands in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java, Indonesia
John McLachlan-Karr

11:50 - 13:00  Conference Discussion Session

13:00  LUNCH and meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER), lunch provided by ISAER

19:00 End of conference party hosted by Mark Brown and Carol Binello at their home

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