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Sustainability - Sustainability Index | | Sustainability - Sustainability Index: Encyclopedia II - Sustainability - Sustainability Index | | In 1999 M.T.Brown and S.Ulgiati [1] formulated a quantitative sustainability index (SI) as a ratio of the emergy yield ratio (EYR) to the environmental loading ratio (ELR). Brown and Ulgiati also called the sustainability index, the "Emergy Sustainability Index" (ESI), "an index that accounts for yield, renewability, and environmental load. It is the incremental emergy yield compared to the environmental load" (1999, p. 7). The ratio is defined as follows:
(From Table 3. 'Global Emergy Indicies' in Brown and Ulgiati 19 ...
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Sustainability - Sustainability Index
In 1999 M.T.Brown and S.Ulgiati [1] formulated a quantitative sustainability index (SI) as a ratio of the emergy yield ratio (EYR) to the environmental loading ratio (ELR). Brown and Ulgiati also called the sustainability index, the "Emergy Sustainability Index" (ESI), "an index that accounts for yield, renewability, and environmental load. It is the incremental emergy yield compared to the environmental load" (1999, p. 7). The ratio is defined as follows:
(From Table 3. 'Global Emergy Indicies' in Brown and Ulgiati 1999, p.23)
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