期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH
卷 35, 期 6, 页码 459-476出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/er.1713
关键词
agricultural production; agricultural sustainability; exergy analysis; eco-environmental performance; OECD agriculture; sustainability indicators
资金
- Australian Research Council [DP0663809]
- Australian Research Council [DP0663809] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
This article proposed the combination of cumulative exergy extraction from the natural environment and extended exergy analysis to analyse international environmental performance in agricultural production. The unified approach allowed the cumulative analysis of total extraction of all types of resources and services from the ecosystem in agriculture. The analysis, therefore, enabled a more accurate comparison of the environmental performance of different countries or systems based on different indicators of sustainability. The application was conducted for 29 OECD countries for the years from 1990 to 2003 with some important findings. First, the organic contents in topsoil, feed and total water withdrawal were the three types of resources that agricultural production extracted most from the environment. Second, during the 14 years surveyed, the efficiency of using exergy in the livestock sector was much lower than the efficiency in the crop sector. Third, the environmental loading of economic investment had increased slightly, implying a minor increase in the pressure on the environment overtime. In addition, the empirical study on OECD countries confirmed that rankings varied widely based on different indicators. The empirical results gave some evidence to support the use of non-renewability yield ratio, firstly defined in this paper, because the rankings based on this indicator was more consistent with many other indicators. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据