Environmental Accounting and Management
Environmental Accounting and Management
少于1000 人选课
更新日期:2025/04/28
开课时间2025/01/26 - 2025/07/24
课程周期26 周
开课状态开课中
每周学时-
课程简介

The day-by-day increasing interest on appropriate resource management and environmental integrity calls for a unified measure of resource quality, in order to provide a rational, science-based method for evaluation of commodities, energy, societal and environmental services. This course describes the Emergy approach and the role of emergy in environmental management and policy making. Specifically the course: •Describes the theoretical basis, calculation procedures and applications of emergy •Introduces the concept of Unit Emergy Value (transformity, specific emergy, emergy intensities), a characterization factor expressing the energy of one type required to produce a good or a service •Provides formulas and procedures for emergy calculations •Deals with the use of emergy to evaluate natural capital, environmental services, economies and international trade, economic sectors and production processes, land use and land use change •Compares the emergy approach to other, complementing environmental and economic evaluations Five chapters course stressing emergy concepts, theory, and principles.Each chapter is composed of 4 sessions.One or two sessions each chapter is devoted to a case study that includes “hands-on” computation of emergy or simulation of models to reinforce lecture material and extend understanding of systems concepts.  

课程大纲
Chapter 0 - Introduction
Chapter 0 - Introduction
Chapter 1 - Integrating Biophysical & Economic Values: The Emerging Discipline of Emergy Analysis
Chapter 1 - Integrating Biophysical & Economic Values: The Emerging Discipline of Emergy Analysis
Chapter 2.1 - Systems Perspective: Drivers, Components, and Processes
Chapter 2.1 - Systems Perspective: Drivers, Components, and Processes
Chapter 2.2 Systems Language-A picture is worth a thousand words
Chapter 2.2 A Systems Language-A picture is worth a thousand words
Chapter 3.1 - Energy, Exergy and Thermodynamics: Thermodynamics, Maximum power, Hierarchies, and Mat
Chapter 3.1 - Energy, Exergy and Thermodynamics: Thermodynamics, Maximum power, Hierarchies, and Mat
Chapter 3.2 - Calculating Exergy of Materials & Energy Sources: Available energy using Gibbs Free E
Chapter 3.2 - Calculating Exergy of Materials & Energy Sources: Available energy using Gibbs Free E
Chapter 4.1 - Emergy and Environmental Accounting: The Geobiosphere Emergy Baseline (GEB), Solar equ
Chapter 4.1 - Emergy and Environmental Accounting: The Geobiosphere Emergy Baseline (GEB), Solar equ
Chapter 4.2 - Emergy of Renewable Secondary and Tertiary Global Sources: Computation of primary, sec
Chapter 4.2 - Emergy of Renewable Secondary and Tertiary Global Sources: Computation of primary, sec
Chapter 5 - Emergy of Materials,Energy,and Finished Products: UEVs of non-renewable fossil fuels; UE
Chapter 5 - Emergy of Materials,Energy,and Finished Products: UEVs of non-renewable fossil fuels; UE
Chapter 6 - Static Emergy Accounting: Emergy algebra, Emergy evaluation procedure , Static calculati
Chapter 6 - Static Emergy Accounting: Emergy algebra, Emergy evaluation procedure , Static calculati
Chapter 7 - Dynamic Emergy Accounting: Simulation of emergy and transformity, network analysis of em
Chapter 7 - Dynamic Emergy Accounting: Simulation of emergy and transformity, network analysis of em
Chapter 8 - Emergy Evaluating Procedure: systems diagram, evaluation table, footnotes, summary diagr
Chapter 8 - Emergy Evaluating Procedure: systems diagram, evaluation table, footnotes, summary diagr
Chapter 9 - Emergy and the Economy: Emergy Money Ratio, “Value Added”, international trade, emergy
Chapter 9 - Emergy and the Economy: Emergy Money Ratio, “Value Added”, international trade, emergy
Chatper 10 - Emergy Evaluation of Nations
Chatper 10 - Emergy Evaluation of Nations
Chapter 11 - Emergy & Nations
Chapter 11 - Emergy & Nations
Chapter 12 - Emergy and Urban Systems: Understanding urban systems; Settlement location; Urban Hiera
Chapter 12 - Emergy and Urban Systems: Understanding urban systems; Settlement location; Urban Hiera
Chapter 13 - Emergy Evaluation of Ecosystems: What is a ecosystem? GPP & NPP; Succession; Emergy of
Chapter 13 - Emergy Evaluation of Ecosystems: What is a ecosystem? GPP & NPP; Succession; Emergy of
Chapter 14 - Natural Capital and Environmental Services: What are ecosystem services? What is natura
Chapter 14 - Natural Capital and Environmental Services: What are ecosystem services? What is natura
Chapter 15 - Emergy and Landscape Development Intensity
Chapter 15 - Emergy and Landscape Development Intensity
Chapter 16 - Environmental Impact Assessment: Strip mining, power plants cooling, Everglades resto
Chapter 16 - Environmental Impact Assessment: Strip mining, power plants cooling, Everglades resto
Chapter 17 - Environmental Impact Assessment: Evaluating impacts of oil spills
Chapter 17 - Environmental Impact Assessment: Evaluating impacts of oil spills
Chapter 18 - Emergy Evaluation of Energy Alternatives: Net Emergy, Emergy Yield Ratio, Energy Return
Chapter 18 - Emergy Evaluation of Energy Alternatives: Net Emergy, Emergy Yield Ratio, Energy Return
Chapter 19 - Wastes and Recycling
Chapter 19 - Wastes and Recycling
Chapter 20 - Models of Economic Interface: Theory, models, and simulation of economic interfaces, ec
Chapter 20 - Models of Economic Interface: Theory, models, and simulation of economic interfaces, ec
Epilogue: Environmental Accounting and Management in Future
Epilogue: Environmental Accounting and Management in Future