Author(s)

F.M. Pulselli, S. Bastianoni, E. Da Villa, M. Gattolin & N. Marchettini

Abstract

Human artificial systems always interact with ecosystems which provide a lot of fundamental resources and services. An accounting system, which is able to take into consideration both the economic and natural support to a given territorial system, is necessary for a good and sustainable management of resources. During the ‘80s, H. Odum developed an environmental assessment of the use of resources by a thermodynamic based methodology: emergy evaluation. The paper presents the case of the Province of Venice, which is very complex due, on the one hand, to the heavy and consolidated presence of industrial activity since the beginning of the 20th century and, on the other hand,

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