Emergy-Based Adjustment of the Agricultural Structure in a Low-Carbon Economy in Manas County of China

The emergy concept, integrated with a multi-objective linear programming method, was used to model the agricultural structure of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region under the consideration of the need to develop a low-carbon economy. The emergy indices before and after the structural optimization were...

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Main Authors: Sergio Ulgiati, Xinshi Zhang, Baohua Yu, Xiaobin Dong, Yufang Zhang, Weijia Cui, Bin Xun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-09-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/9/1428/