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 SEVENTH BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE
January 12 - January 14, 2012
J. Wayne Reitz Union, Room 282,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
A Prosperous Way Down pre-conference workshop in the afternoon starting at 1:00pm, organized by Tom Abel, more information here.
18:00 - 21:00 Pre-Registration and Open House - Arrive any time between 6pm and 9pm, Center for Environmental Policy, Phelps Lab
Thursday, January 12, 2012
8:00 Check-in and Registration
8:20 Opening Welcome - Emergy Synthesis 7 – Mark Brown
8:25 - 10:05 Session 1 ~ Assessing the Global Emergy Baseline
The solar equivalence issue and the effects on the baseline
Simone Bastianoni, Federico M. Pulselli, Federico Rossi, Fabiana Morandi and Daniel Campbell
A different take on the Emergy Baseline – or can there really be any such thing?
Marco Raugei
Quantifying the eMergy of resources: challenges for a bottom-up approach
Benedetto Rugani, E. Benetto, D. Arbault, L. Tiruta-Barna and A. Marvuglia
A geobiosphere baseline for LCA–Emergy evaluations
Mark T. Brown and Sergio Ulgiati
10:05 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:10 Session 2 ~ Emergy and Life Cycle Assessment
Renewable accounting in LCA framework
Xin (Cissy) Ma
The added value of integrating emergy into LCA
Marco Raugei, Benedetto Rugani, Enrico Benetto and Wesley Ingwersen
Dealing with emergy algebra in the Life Cycle Assessment framework
Benedetto Rugani, E. Benetto, L. Tiruta-Barna, W. Ingwersen, A. Marvuglia, and D. Arbault
Labor and services
Sergio Ulgiati and Mark T. Brown
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch
13:10 - 15:40 Session 3 ~ Advances in Methodology
Emergy of the global biogeochemical cycles of biologically active elements
Daniel E. Campbell, Hong-fang Lu, Bin-le Lin
Transformities for upper continental crustal minerals
Christopher De Vilbiss
Improved matrix algebra methods for calculating transformities in complicated ecological and economic networks
Murray Patterson
Set theory applied to emergy analysis to uniquely define the inputs to multi-scale emergy analysis
Fabiana Morandi, Dan Campbell, Simone Bastianoni
Uncertainty characterization in emergy analysis: fuzzy-based approach
Bahareh Reza, Rehan Sadiq, Kasun Hewage
Comparison of principles for allocating emergy to recycled materials in natural and managed ecosystems
Brandon K. Winfrey and David R. Tilley
15:40 - 16:05 Break
16:05 - 17:45 Session 4 ~ Economic Interfaces and Human Services
Development of eco-efficiency index by emergy analysis
Dong Joo Lee
Estimating transformity (UEV) with economic input-output model
Lixiao Zhang, Z.F. Yang, B. Chen, and G.Y. Liu
Assessment of services in emergy accounting of nations
Lucas Pereira and Enrique Ortega
Emergy of the occupations
Daniel E. Campbell, Carolyn F. Boggess and Denis White
18:00 - 21:30 Poster Session and Conference Banquet at Ustler Hall,
hosted by the Center for Environmental Policy
POSTERS PRESENTED:
Assessment emergy agroforestry system: a case study a Estação Ariosto da Riva, Alta Floresta, Brazil
M.M. Alves, E. Ortega, C.T. Albuquerque
Emergy analysis of the crop-livestock farm: considering five cycles of annual production of milk and oranges
Edmar Eduardo Bassan Mendes, Irineu Arcaro Jr., Luís Alberto Ambrósio
Comparative analysis of sugarcane ethanol in Florida and Brazil
Nana Y. Amponsah,John C. Capece, and Edward A. Hanlon
The Maximum (Em)Power Principle as a cross-disciplinary interpretational key: from ecology to psychology
Fabio Beni and Marco Raugei
Emergy evaluation of biofuel production from water hyacinth biomass: case study of a sub region of Pantanal, Brazil
Luz S. Buller, E. Ortega, Ivan Bergier
The application of Emergy accountancy to arts related data to help determine the impact of this data on society
Robin Burgess
Applying sustainability indicators to institutions of higher education: promises andchallenges
Tingting Cai, T.W. Olsen, and Dan Campbell
The emergy baseline for the Earth: is it arbitrary?
Daniel E. Campbell, Simone Bastianoni, Hongfang Lu
Emergy and nonmarket value
Dan Campbell, Elliott T. Campbell, David R. Tilley
Emergy cost benefit: comparison of a cooling tower and an algal turf scrubber for reduction of thermal waste
Elliott Campbell, Patrick Kangas, Mark Ross
Dengue Control in Florida and Transformity
Dennis Collins and Glenn Collins
Emergy-based evaluation of the natural capital and environmental services for the Xilinguole grassland
Baohua Yua, Sergio Ulgiati, Xiaobin Dong, Xinshi Zhang
Level 1 landscape scale analysis of Florida wetland condition
Jenet Dooley, Kelly Chinners Reiss, Mark T. Brown
Environmental multi-criteria accounting of a Brazilian bamboo plantation
L. Ghelmandi, B. F. Giannetti, S. H. Bonilla, G. Rótolo and C. M. V. B. Almeida
Addressing uncertainty in emergy analyses with Monte Carlo simulations
Amy Hudson and David Tilley
How to manage inputs from joint production processes in emergy accounting
Andreas Kamp and Hanne Østergård
Emergy synthesis of urbanization and CO2 emission and sequestration: a case study of New Taichung City
Chun-Lin Lee and Hui-Ling Shen
The maximum empower principle: an invisible hand controlling the self-organizing development of forest plantations in south China
Linjun Lee, Hongfang Lu, David R. Tilley, Hai Ren
Global pattern of emergy potential: natural capital and energy flows
Jine Liu, Bin-Le Lin, Zhengguo Li, Kenji Sugimoto, Masayuki Sagisaka, Ryosuke Shibasaki
Updates on the emergy global baseline and global flows
Xin (Cissy) Ma
Ecological and thermodynamic indicators for integreated coastal planning and bio-geodiversity resources conservation
Leonardo Marotta, Lorenzo Benini, Luciano Vogli
Emergy and the value of ecosystems services in Indonesia
John McLachlan-Karr
Emergy evaluation of landfills for methane generation, recoverability and sustainability
Smiti Nepal and Elliott Campbell
Cost-benefit emergy evaluation of vertical greenery systems in temperate climate conditions
Riccardo Pulselli , Federico Pulselli and Simone Bastianoni
Emergy synthesis in land management applications: the case of Florida wetland mitigation banking
Kelly Chinners Reiss, Erica Hernandez, Mark T. Brown
The challenge of our times
Tom Robertson
Environmental services provided by tropical forests in recovery
Thiago Roncon and Enrique Ortega
Life Cycle Assessment of Mexican sugarcane agroindustry with a focus on agricultural production
Jorge Alberto Alejandre Rosas
Environmental evaluation for sowing seed production
Gloria C. Rótolo, Mercedes Rivero, Andrés Pereyra, Roque Craviotto, Sergio Ulgiati
An Emergy WebGIS Platform using open source software for evaluating natural resources in Campania Region
Mellino Salvatore, Maddalena Ripa, Amalia Zucaro and Sergio Ulgiati
Religion-Science amalgam
David Scienceman and Dennis Collins
The solar transformity of power and heat in combined heat and power plant
Sha Sha and Markku Hurme
Emergy accounting of agricultural limestone processing
C.C. Silva, I. Corsini, K. Tagliaferro and G. F. Silva
Simulation of carbon and water cycles in a Brazilian watershed: the impact of land-use change
Marcos Wantanabeand Enrique Ortega
The estimate of sediment loss in the EMergy-based flows of hydropower production system
Juan Yang
Ecological evaluation of Zhoushan economy based on emergy
Sheng Zhao, Huiwen Cai, Feng Gui, Ke Song, Changwen Wu
Environmental Cost Accounting of traditional restoration of the submerged aquatic macrophyte Potamogeton perfoliatus and possible alternative methods
Elizabeth Zinecker
Friday, January 13, 2012
8:25 - 10:05 Session 5 ~ Power Generation Systems 1
(concurrent with Session 6)
Emergy analysis of coal-fired power generation system and construction of new emergy indices
Lou Bo, Xu Yi, Lin Zhenguan
Eco-environmental assessment of heat plants: Biomass or natural gas?
Nadia Jamali-Zghal, Nana Yaw Amponsah, Bruno Lacarriere, Olivier Le Corre and Michael Feidt
Emergy evaluation of a refuse-derived fuel production facility in Wonju, Korea
JinA Im, Jongmyoung Lee, Daeseok Kang
Electricity production from agricultural wastes: an emergy evaluation
C. C. Silva, B. F. Giannetti, C. M. V. B. Almeida, G. F. Silva, S. H. Bonilla and J. A. B. Grimoni
8:25 - 10:05 Session 6 ~ Food Production Systems 1
(Room 284, concurrent with Session 5)
Emergy analysis of an agroforestal system (agroforestry)
Teldes Albuquerque, E. Ortega and V. Salek
Emergy evaluation of governmental policies on derelict fishing gears in Korea
Sunwook Hong, Daeseok Kang, Jongmyoung Lee
Sustainability of extensive livestock systems in Alentejo: viability in face of rising energy prices
Ana Margarida Pinto da Fonseca
Incorporation of emergy analysis into multiple-criteria decision making at the farm
level and its implications for agri-environmental policy design: A conceptual model
Tina Jaklic, Luka Juvancic, Marko Debeljak
10:05 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:10 Session 7 ~ Power Generation Systems 2 (concurrent with Session 8)
Emergy evaluation of the tidal power plant in Saemanguem, Korea
Laura Hija J. Kim, Sukmo Lee
Emergy synthesis of E-Macrosystem Comprehensive Renewable Energy Power Plant Deployment Proposal for the people of the Republique d'Haiti
Brent Ritzel
Macroalgae - an environmental problem or a resource from an eMergy perspective?
Michele Seghetta, Hanne Østergård and Simone Bastianoni
10:30 - 12:10 Session 8 ~ Food Production Systems 2 (Room 284, concurrent with Session 7)
Future agriculture- a donor based value activity
Torbjörn Rydberg and Lennart Salomonsson
Sustainability assessment of farming in perspective of diminishing global emerge flows – A case study
Mads Ville Markussen and Hanne Østergård
Emergy-based sustainability assessment and perspectives of regional agriculture in Northern and Southern Italy
Patrizia Ghisellini, Amalia Zucaro and Sergio Ulgiati
Emergy evaluation of a mountain socio-economic system and traditional agroproduction - a case study in Indian Trans-Himalaya
Federico M. Pulselli and Vladimiro Pelliciardi
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch
13:10 - 15:40 Session 9 ~ Urban, Regional and National Analysis
Solar emergy evaluation of Portuguese economy
Carlos Oliveira, Cecília Martins, José Gonçalves
Emergy accounting of Brazilian states and regions
F.J.C. Demétrio, B. F. Giannetti, S. H. Bonilla and C. M. V. B. Almeida
Spatial emergy synthesis of the environmental impacts from the agricultural production system change - a case study of Taiwan
Ying-Chen Lin and Shu-Li Huang
Emergy analysis of land eco-economic system at the county level in China from 1996 to 2008
Yang Gao
Emergy-based urban dynamic modeling of long-run resource consumption, economic growth and environmental impact: conceptual considerations, calibration and scenario analysis
Gengyuan Liu, Zhifeng Yang, Bin Chen, Sergio Ulgiati
Study of the environmental sustainability of São Caetano do Sul using eMergy synthesis
Fábio Sevegnani, C.M.V.B. Almeida, B.F. Giannetti, S.H. Bonilla
15:40-16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:40 Session 10 ~ Architecture and Sustainable Infrastructure
Architecture and power: forms of emergy
William W. Braham
An emergy-based sustainability rating system for Canadian construction projects
Navid Hossani and Kasun Hewage
Renewable Substitutability Index for built environments
Ravi S. Srinivasan, Daniel E. Campbell, Wei Wang
Urban infrastructure adaptations to maximize sustainability based on renewable Emergy fingerprint: New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Eldon C. Blancher, II and J. O. Evans, III
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner and Open House at Betty Odum's,
hosted by Betty Odum
Saturday, January 14, 2012
8:25 -10:30
Session 11 ~ Ecology and Ecosystem Servcies
Self-Organization of Function, Structure, and Efficiency in Subtropical Forests
Hongfang Lu, Shuhua Liu, Daniel E. Campbell
The emergy of ecological corridors
Vito Comar and David Tilley
Fair payment prices and public values of ecosystem services based on emergy synthesis
Elliott Campbell and David Tilley
Assessing investments and benefits of nature conservation in natural parks: an ecological-economic approach
Silvio Viglia, Pier Paolo Franzese, Andrzej Nienartowicz, Sergio Ulgiati
Can resource pulsing improve emergy efficiency?
Seungjun Lee
10:3-10:55 Break
10:55 -13:25
Session 12 ~ Theory and Conceptual Frameworks
Toward a mathematical origin of species
Dennis Collins
Taking it to the streets: A framework for sustainable communities
John M. Murray
Understanding the green economy and its institutions
Enrique Ortega, I. Alcoforado, J.M.G. Ferraz, V. Salek
Conversation in Cycles: The dynamics of culture sharing
Thomas Abel
The relevance of emerging solutions for thinking, decision making and acting: the case of Smart Grids
Corrado Giannantoni
Unforgettable transformity: scrutinizing a marvelous system-property
David Tilley
13:30 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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