Study on the emergy-based thermodynamic geography of the Jing-Jin-Ji region: Combined multivariate statistical data with DMSP-OLS nighttime lights data

Xueqi Wang, Gengyuan Liu, Luca Coscieme, Biagio F. Giannetti, Yan Hao, Yan Zhang and Mark T. Brown

Ecological Modelling, 2019, vol. 397, issue C, 1-15

Abstract: Emergy analysis is one of the ecological thermodynamics methods. With a specific set of indicators, it is proved to be highly informative for sustainability assessment of national/regional economies. However, a large amount of data needed for its calculation are from official statistical data by administrative divisions. The spatialization of emergy in early researches were limited to the administrative boundaries. The emergy inside an administrative boundary renders a single value, which hides plenty of information for more precise regional planning.

Keywords: Emergy; Spatialization; GIS; Thermodynamic geography; Nighttime lights data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.01.021

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