Exergetic assessment for ecological economic system: Chinese agriculture |
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Authors: | G.Q. Chen M.M. Jiang Z.F. Yang B. Chen Xi Ji J.B. Zhou |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;2. School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China |
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Abstract: | Based on the thermodynamic concept of exergy as a unified measure for environmental resources and economic products, a framework for systems assessment is presented for ecological economies. With a typical systems diagram devised for a general ecological economy with four arm fluxes for free local natural resources, purchased economic investment, environmental impact and economic yield, system indices of the renewability index, exergy yield ratio, exergy investment ratio, environmental resource to yield ratio, system transformity and environmental stress index are defined for a congregated systems ecological assessment with essential implications to sustainability. As a detailed case study to the Chinese agriculture from 1980 to 2000 with cropping, forestry, stockbreeding and fishery sectors, extensive exergy account and systems assessment are carried out with emphasis on annual and structural variations against social political transitions. For the overall agriculture as a congregated ecological stage, the value of the system transformity is found around 10, the typical value for the general ecological hierarchy as well devised by Odum associated with Lindeman's Tenth Law. |
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Keywords: | Exergy Environmental resources Agriculture Ecological economy |
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