Due to growing interest in biofuels as alternative renewable energy sources, several recent
studies have assessed the sustainability of their production. Emergy is a widely used …

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely recognized, multicriteria and standardized tool for
environmental assessment of products and processes. As an independent evaluation …

Agriculture is currently confronted with the great challenge of feeding a soaring population
given finite resources while simultaneously curbing negative environmental impacts. Thus …

The present study uses emergy methodology to evaluate environmental aspects of
integrated production systems of grains, pig and fish in small farms in the South region of …

Improving the eco-efficiency of the circular economy system in mining areas has been
recognized as the most effective way to reduce the greenhouse effect and achieve …

Over the last four decades, Environmental Accounting tools have been developed to
conceptualise and quantify the direct and indirect effects of human activity on the …

This paper presents the results of an environmental impact assessment of biodiesel
production from soybean in Brazil. In order to achieve this objective, environmental impact …

Both sustainability and sustainable development continue to remain elusive concepts even
now, 20 years after the Brundtland Commission report that brought them into prominence …

In this work, emergy analysis was used in association with the Geographical Information
System (GIS) in order to improve the evaluation of family-managed farms that adopt either …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the soybean production and industrial processing stages
in Brazil using the emergy accounting methodology and economic cost and revenue …