SCHEDULE OF PAPERS
SECOND BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE 

September 20-22, 2001
Gainesville, Florida

Oral Presentations

 
Thursday 20 September

8:30 Transformity and the Energy Hierarchy of the Universe
            Howard T. Odum

9:00 Mathematical Formulation of the Maximum Em-Power Principle
             Corrado Giannantoni

9:30 Spatial and Temporal Simulations of Emergy
            Mark T. Brown

10:00 Why is GDP more closely correlated with industrial energy use than with Emergy use.
              Charles A.S. Hall and Jae Young Ko

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 Environmental accounting of water resources in the Samoggia river area
              Laura Fugaro, Nadia Marchettini, Ilaria Principi

11:15 Environmental Accounting for Saemangeum Tideland Reclamation Project
              Suk Mo Lee

11:45 Emergy synthesis for decision support in ecosystem management of forested watersheds
             D. R. Tilley, W.T. Swank

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 Applying Emergy Analysis to River Diversions: Lessons Learned
             Jay F. Martin,

2:00 Best Water Management Plan for a small river basin in the Great Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region
             Maria Silvia Romitelli

2:30 From Emergy Analysis to proposals of Public Policy: Soybean production in Brazil
             E. Ortega & M. Miller.

3:00 Integration of information on fallow systems toward supporting public policies
              Rodrigues, G. S; Kitamura, P. C; Meyer, L. F. F; Denich, M.; Sá, Tatiana D. de A

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 Agriculture/pasture/cattle ranching: emergy evaluation.
             Abdala, G.C and Philomena, A.L.

4:15 Emergy-Exergy Evaluation of the Sugar Cane Industry: first approach
             A. E. Calvo, J. Torres, A. Iznaga

4:45 Sustainability of Agroforestry and Agroindustrial Systems in Chiapas, Mexico
             H. A. Guillen-Trujillo

Friday September 21

8:30 Emergy Analysis of Building Operation in Thailand
             V. Buranakarn,

9:00 Energy, Exergy And Emergy Evaluation Of The Compression And Absorption Refrigertion Systems.
             J.T.V.Pereira, R.P.Milanes, C.Lanzoti, and D.Pires

9:30 Emergy and Life-Cycle Assessment of Steel Production
             Bargigli S. Ulgiati S.

10:00 Emergetic and Exergetic Analysis of a Combined Cycle Power Plant
             S. Tonon and A. Mirandola

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 On the Rationale of the Transformity Method
              Dennis Collins

11:15 Mathematics for Quality. Living and non-living Systems
             Corrado Giannantoni

11:45 More Transformities From Ecosystem Energy Webs With The Eigenvalue Method
             Howard T. Odum and Dennis Collins

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 A proposal for a new calculation of the transformity of oil and its derivatives
             Simone Bastianoni, Ludovico Susani and Enzo Tiezzi

2:00 An Emergy Analysis of the Global Nitrogen Cycle
             Daniel E. Campbell

2:30 Emergy Evaluation of Atmospheric Oxygen and Nitrogen.
             Ulgiati S , Bargigli S., Raugei M and Tabacco A.M.

3:00 Wavelength specific Solar Transformities for Solar Radiation reaching the Earth
             David R. Tilley

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 Network Components of Emergy Analysis
             Bernard C. Patten and Brian D. Fath

4:15 Simulating Emergy, Empower, and Transformity in Dynamic Models of the Microscopic  Scales using TRUE BASIC and EXTEND
             Howard T. Odum

4:45 Comparison of Environmental Assessment Tools Using a Living Systems Framework
             Steven Doherty, Torbjörn Rydberg, Johanna Björklund

Poster Presentations

2. Emergy-Exergy Evaluation of an inner city Steam Power Plant (1)
          Alberto E. Calvo, Julio A.González, Barbara Cepero, Lázaro Elejalde

3. Emergy Evaluation to determine best Alternative Track for Natural Gas Pipelines within a Strategic Environmental Assessment of their area of influence
          Vito Comar

4. Mercosur Sustainability
          Cecilia Ferreyra, Mark T. Brown, Eliana Bardi

5. Emergy Evaluation of Everglades Restoration
          Charles Mann and Mark T. Brown

6. Student Empower: A Teaching Exercise
          Elisabeth C. Odum

7. Emergy comparison of ethanol production in Brazil: traditional versus
small distillery with food and electricity production.
          Ortega, E.; Ometto, A.R.; Rodríguez-Ramos, P.; Anami, M.

8. Substituting LPG by biogas from poultry production system: an EMERGY synthesis.
          Philomena, A.L. ,

9. The economics of Spirulina farming on southern Brazil: potentials and limitations.
          Cozza, K.L., ,Costa, J.A.V. , Philomena, A.L.

10. Evaluation of a Coal Gasification Process towards Hydrogen Production. An integrated assessment.
          Raugei M.,, Bargigli S., and Ulgiati S.

11. Using Spatial Dynamics of Emergy in a Watershed as an Ecological Engineering Design Tool
          Sherry Brandt-Williams

12. The Real Cost of Agriculture
          Sherry Brandt-Williams and Gonzague Pillet

13. The Energy Basis of a Subtropical Wetland Mesocosm
          C. Streb, E. Biermann, P. Kangas, and W. Adey

14. Life-Cycle Assessment and Emergy Accounting of Chromium Production
          Tabacco A.M and Ulgiati S.

15. Dynamic Emergy Simulation of Soil Genesis and Transformity Confidence Envelope Estimation
          Matt Cohen

16. Emergy Analysis as an Adequate Tool to Evaluate the Natural Environment
        Catia Cialani

17. Emergy Assessment of Different Strategies for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Italy
         Niccolucci V., Panzieri M., Porcelli M. and Ridolfi R.

18. Emergy Evaluation of the "emternalities" at Local Level: the case of some hill-mountain municipalities in Italy
         Pulselli F. M., Pulselli R. M., Picchi M. P.

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