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Author: | Pulselli, R. M. |
Title: | Integrating emergy evaluation and geographic information systems for monitoring resource use in the Abruzzo region (Italy) |
Journal: | Journal of Environmental Management
2010 : NOV, VOL.91:11, p. 2349-2357 |
Index terms: | environmental accounting regional planning Italy environmental economics |
Freeterms: | empower thermodynamics territorial systems land use monitoring resource emergy evaluation geographic information system (GIS) |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This article presents an application of an environmental accounting method, namely emergy evaluation, developed for the monitoring and assessment of environmental resource use by local communities in the Abruzzo Region (Italy). Once quantified and classified according to their origin (renewable or non-renewable, local or external), emergy flows were elaborated through a geographic information system (GIS) that allowed them to represent their spatial distribution throughout the region. Outcomes took the form of patterns in which different emergy intensities. This allowed for the representation, at a glance, of a kind of geography that mirrors the behavior of a population settled in an area as additional information for investigating the effects of the use of urban structures and functions and improving their understanding of regional systems. |
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