Our research agenda has focused on merging science and policy, coalescing principles and data from basic research in thermodynamics of self-organizing system, ecology, energy systems, systems ecology, ecological economics, and ecological engineering into an understanding of human and environmental systems. Our research has spanned such global problems as population carrying capacity, greenhouse emissions, material fluxes in conventional and renewable energy production systems, and sustainable patterns of development at local, regional, national and global scales.

Our research has lead to the development of methods for quantifying environmental values, and their application to questions of energy policy and natural resource management throughout the world, helping developing nations understand their resource issues and to evaluate alternative solutions. Our research has addressed resource management questions in Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Brazil, and Ecuador, the six countries of the “southern cone” of South America and most recently the Sahel region of northern Africa.

Programs with Emergy Research Initiatives

Center for Environmental Policy
University of Florida

Department of Sciences for the Environment
Parthenope University of Napoli, Italy

Laboratorio de Engenharia Ecológica e Informática Aplicada
FEA - Unicamp, SP - Brasil

Ecodynamics Group
University of Siena, Italy

Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU
Uppsala, Sweden

Graduate Institue of Urban Planning
National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ecosystem Engineering Design Lab
Department of Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland

Office of Research and Development, National Health & Environmental Effects Research Lab
Atlantic Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Narragansett, Rhode Island

Emergy Society

International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER)

EMERGY RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Yellow triangles designate 11 research centers with multiple collaborators and/or students training in methods developed at the Center for Environmental Policy (CEP), University of Florida. Red dots denote over 90 researchers in 22 countries regularly engaged in emergy related research and participating in the emergy conferences hosted by the CEP.