2006•Chinese Journal of Population Resources and EnvironmentRequires access
Retrospect and Prospect of Research on Emergy Analysis in the Ecological Assessment of Regional Sustainable Development
Jian Zhong Peng
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Abstract
Ecological assessment of sustainable development is one of the superiority fields of international ecological economy and researches on sustainable development.Emergy analysis can assess the sustainability of ecological flows of human ecological-economic systems,which is an important research area.Although emergy analysis can assess the contributions of natural environmental resources to human ecological-economic systems,and can overcome many shortcomings of traditional energy analysis and economic analysis,there are also shortcomings in emergy analysis.To sum up all the latest researches on regional emergy analysis,the following four prime issues can be summarized for applying emergy analysis on ecological assessment of regional sustainable development,that is,the confirmation of emergy transformity,the conformity of emergy analysis and spatial pattern analysis,the conformity of cost value and purchase value,the threshold of sustainability.