Design and implementation of emergy-based sustainability decision assessment system for protected grape cultivation

Feng, Jianying

Design and implementation of emergy-based sustainability decision assessment system for protected grape cultivation / Jianying Feng ... [et al.]. -- The characteristic "high input and output" in protected production has caused some environmental and ecological issues. Hence, emergy-based sustainability assessments are necessary and valuable. However, traditional emergy analysis is time consuming, tedious, and inefficient. Such disadvantages can be addressed by the integration of emergy analysis with information technology. This paper reports the development of the emergy-based sustainability decision assessment system (ESDAS) for protected grape cultivation systems. This system was established by first analyzing the business process, users, and requirements through survey, and the findings of which were used to design the system's function, architecture, database, model base, and knowledge base with a combination of emergy methods. The results showed that ESDAS passed the system test and achieved the real-time calculation of emergy data and the automatization of emergy analysis. Therefore, this research is a beneficial attempt to a

In Sustainability. -- Basel : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2015. -- ISSN 2071-1050. -- Vol. 7, no. 10 (2015), pp. 14002-14025