Emergy analysis of cropping-grazing system in Inner Mongolia Autonomous   Region, China

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2007.01.022

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	Emergy analysis of cropping-grazing system in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
	Zhang, L. X. ; Yang, Z. F. ; Chen, G. Q.
刊名	energy policy
	2007
关键词	emergy cropping-grazing system land use AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS SUSTAINABILITY ECOSYSTEMS SCALES MODEL
DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2007.01.022
英文摘要	An ecological energetic evaluation is presented in this paper as a complement to economic account for the cropping-grazing system in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China in the year 2000. Based on Odum's well-known concept of energy in terms of embodied solar energy as a unified measure for environmental resources, human or animal labors and industrial products, a systems diagram is developed for the crop and livestock productions with arms and sub-arms for free renewable natural resource input, purchased economic investment, yields of and interactive fluxes between the cropping and grazing sub-industries. In addition to conventional systems indices of the emergy yield ratio (EYR), emergy investment ratio (EIR), environmental load ratio (ELR) and environmental sustainability index (ESI) introduced for congregated systems ecological assessment with essential implication for sustainability, new indicators of soil emergy cost (SEC), self-support intensity (SSI) and self-support orientation (SSO) are defined to characterize the desertification and internal recycling associated with the special agricultural system. Extensive emergy accounting is made for the cropping-grazing system as a whole as well as for the cropping and grazing subsystems. The overall cropping-grazing system is shown with outstanding production competence compared with agricultural systems in some other provinces and the national average in China, though confronted with severe desertification associated with soil loss. The production of crops has higher emergy density and yield rate per unit area as well as higher rate of soil loss than grazing system. The soil emergy cost defined as the soil loss emergy divided by the yield emergy is estimated to be of the same value for both of the subsystems, but the grazing activity is with less extraction intensity, leaving rangeland to rest and rehabilitate. Suggestions with regard to the local sustainability and national ecological security in northern China are explored for land-use policy making. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000247535400024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; SCI(E); EI; SSCI; 36; ARTICLE; 7; 3843-3855; 35
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/250100]
专题	工学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, L. X.,Yang, Z. F.,Chen, G. Q.. Emergy analysis of cropping-grazing system in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China[J]. energy policy,2007.
APA	Zhang, L. X.,Yang, Z. F.,&Chen, G. Q..(2007).Emergy analysis of cropping-grazing system in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.energy policy.
MLA	Zhang, L. X.,et al."Emergy analysis of cropping-grazing system in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China".energy policy (2007).