SCHEDULE OF PAPERS
FOURTH BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE 

Theory and Applications of the Emergy Methodology

January 19, 20, 21, 2006
J. Wayne Reitz Union, Room 282
Gainesville, Florida

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

8:00  Registration

8:25 - 8:30 Opening Remarks

Emergy Systems 4 - Mark Brown

8:30 - 10:35 Session 1~Advances in methology 1

A New Landscape Development Index (LDI) Based on Aereal Empower Density
Mark Brown and Benjamin Vivas
Emergy Life Cycle Assessment within a Zero-Emission Framework
Sergio Ulgiati, Silvia Bargigli, and Marco Raugei
Aspects on the Applicability of the Landscape Development Intensity in Different Geographic Settings: Eastern Arkansas and Florida
Benjamin Vivas
"Tropical" Emergy and Disorder
Dennis Collins
Emergy Analysis as the First Ordinal Theory of Complex Systems
Corrado Giannantoni

10:35-11:05 Break

11:05 - 12:45  Session 2 ~ Emergy and Ecosystems
Ecosytem Function and Emergy Indices: Comparison and Coincidence
Jana Babic
Emergy Analysis of Two Watersheds in the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program's Area
Eldon C. Blancher II
Emergy Evaluation of Six Mile Cypress Watershed
John Murray
Active Protection of Halophytes. Assessment of The Human Intervention Range Using the Emergy Analysis and Indicators of Sustainable Development.
Andrzej Nienartowicz


12:45 - 1:45  Lunch

1:45 - 3:50  Session 3 ~ Emergy and Economics
Creation of a Global Emergy Database for Standardized National Emergy Synthesis
Sharlynn Sweeney, Matt Cohen, Danielle King, and Mark Brown
The Relationship between Emergy and Economic Value
Daniel E.Campbell and Tingting Cai
Emergy, economics and the use of the Emergy/Money Ratio
Federico M. Pulselli, Antonio C.I. Pizzigallo, and Nadia Marchettini
The Costs and Benefits of Restoring Streams Affected by AMD: Emergy-based Valuation and Liability Assessment
Tingting Cai, T.W. Olsen, and Daniel E. Campbell
Emergy and Economy of Citrus Production in a Belizean Watershed
Pat Kangas

3:50 - 4:20  Break

4:20 – 6:30  Poster Session 1 ~ Agricultural, Urban and National Systems

Emergy Analysis of Nations. Lessons Learned from Historical Series.
Pedro Luis Lomas, Catia Cialani, and Sergio Ulgiati
Comparative Assessment of Emergy Time Series for the Sahel
Matthew Cohen, Sharlynn Sweeney, and Mark T. Brown
Emergy Analysis of Israel and Palestine
Elliott Campbell, Dan Campbell, and Stan Cobb
Emergy-based Sustainability of the Peruvian economy
Raul Siche and Enrique Ortega
Environment and Complexity of the Urban Ecosystem of Rome. An Emergy Synthesis.
Marco Ascione, Francesco Cherubini, Luigi Campanella, and Sergio Ulgiati
Geographical Information Systems and Emergy Synthesis to improve waste management processes: The case study of Potenza, Southern Italy
Pier Paolo Franzese, G. F.Russo, and Sergio Ulgiati
Emergy carrying capacity of an uninhabited island in the southwestern coast of Korea
Daeseok Kang, Jungho Nam, Sukmo Lee, Yonghyun Chung, and Kijun Sung
Evaluation Of Tourism In The Okavango Delta In Botswana Using Environmental Accounting
May Lehmensiek
Emergy based decision support to increase sustainability in rural development: optimizing the production of irrigated crops
Martin Beermann
Emergy evaluation of an organic coffee production and processing system in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Vito Comar and Olácio Mamoru Komori
Hiden Value in the Steers of Argentina's Pampas
Gloria Rótolo, Torbjörn Rydberg, Geir Lieblein and Charles Francis
Environmental accounting of ethanol production from switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) in the U.S. using emergy evaluation
Erika Felix and David Tilley
Emergy Analysis of the Brazillian FCOJ Chain
Consuelo de Lima Fernandez Pereira and Enrique Ortega


6:30–8:30  Open House hosted by Center for Environmental Policy-Phelps Lab

Friday, January 20,2006

8:30 - 10:35  Session 4 ~ Advances in methology 2
Comparing the Earth’s Minerals Wealthness from the Point of View of Emergy and Exergetic Cost
Amaya Martinez and A. Valero
Soil, Water, Fish and Forests: Quantifying Diffuse Degradation of Natural Capital in Global Emergy Accounting
Matthew Cohen, Sharlynn Sweeney, Danielle King and Mark T. Brown
Exploring the Concept of Geopotential and Chemical Potential Energy Interactions in Watersheds
Maria Silvia Romitelli
Evaluating the Life Cycle Aspects of Emerging Technologies - How Can Emergy Analysis Help?
Bhavik Bakshi, Vikas Khanna, and Yi Zhang
What is Info?
Enrique Ortega


10:35 - 11:05  Break

11:05 - 12: 45  Session 5 ~ Human-dominated systems

Urbanization and Socioeconomic Metabolism in Taipei Area
Shu-Li Huang and Chia-Wen Chen
Sustainable Use of Treated Wastewater in Georgia: Emergy Evaluation of Alternative Uses for Wastewater
Glen Behrend
Using the Values of Internal Emergy Flows for Emergy Accounting in Complex Systems
Otávio Cavalett and Enrique Ortega
A Dynamic Model Approach to the Emergy Evaluation: The Case Study of a Mediterranean Fish Farm System
Paolo Vassallo and Mauro Fabiano


12:45 - 1:45  Lunch

1:45 - 3:50  Session 6 ~ Energy, Power and Technology
Technological Improvement and Innovation In Photovoltaics - New Emergy Calculations
Marco Raugei, Silvia Bargigli, and Sergio Ulgiati
The Evaluation of Environmental Inputs of Conventional Versus Bio-Solar Home
Vorasun Buranakarn
Compared Analysis of Different Hydrogen Technologies
Roberto Ridolfi, P. Fiorini, R.M. Pulselli, E. Sciubba, E.Tiezzi
Improved Performance of Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells due to Innovative Ceramic Materials. An Emergy Analysis.
Silvia Bargigli, Angelo Moreno, Marco Raugei, Arturo Torazza, and Sergio Ulgiati
Towards a Folio on Fuels
Simone Bastianoni, D. Campbell, F. M. Pulselli and R. Ridolfi


3:50-4:20  Break

4:20-6:20  Poster Session 2~ Methological Aspects
Computing the Specific Emergy of Crustal Elements
Matthew Cohen, S. Sweeney, and M.T. Brown
A Sensitivity Analysis of Emergy Accounting Estimates
Tingting Cai and T.W. Olsen
Partial least squares regression for co-product allocation in emergy-based environmental accounting
David Tilley
Emergy Analysis and the Eigenvalue Method for Solving Transformities using Microsoft Excel
Wade Thompson, Eldon C. Blancher, and Manish Misra
“Nested Emergy Analyses”: Moving Ahead From The Spreadsheet Platform
Silvia Bargigli, Marco Raugei, and Sergio Ulgiati
Comparative Analysis of Indicators of Wellbeing and Using Environmental Accounting
Danielle King, Matt Cohen, Mark Brown, Sharlynn Sweeney
Emergy Evaluation and Ecological Footprint Analysis for regional environmental sustainability assessment: a comparison.
Valentina Niccolucci, Riccardo M. Pulselli, and Simone Bastianoni
Emergy to Money Ratios for 488 Sectors of the U.S. Economy and their Use for Life Cycle Assessment
Nandan Ukidwe and Bhavik Bakshi
Emergy evaluation of the optimum number of stories of new apartment buildings
Jung-Hyuk Im


7:00 – 9:30  Open House – Betty Odum’s House

Saturday, January 21, 2006

MEET IN NEB 102

9:00 -11:05  Session 7 ~ Emergy and future prospects
Farming in a Prosperous Way Down-Emergy Analysis of Styles of Farming
Wijnandm Boonstra and Torbjörn Rydberg
Pulsing and Cultural Evolution in China
Tom Abel
A Model of the Sustainable Corporation of the Future: A Case Study of Interface Corporation
Don Adolphson and Eldon Franz
Energy, Environment, and Prosperity: Now and in the Future
Dan Campbell


11:05-1:00  Discussion Session

7:00 – 00:00  Party at Mark Brown and Carol Binello’s House

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