Soybean supply chain management and sustainability: A systematic literature review

F Jia, S Peng, J Green, L Koh, X Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
As a globally consumed agricultural product, soybeans have long been one of the most
important commodities in the current international market. In this regard, the governance of …

Composting organic waste from the broiler production chain: A perspective for the circular economy

M Chiarelotto, JCPS Restrepo, HEF Lorin… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The broiler production chain (BPC) has associated environmental impacts, costs, and effects
that are not compensated by the Brazilian socioeconomy. The objective of this review was to …

Time lag of vegetation growth on the Loess Plateau in response to climate factors: Estimation, distribution, and influence

D Kong, C Miao, J Wu, H Zheng, S Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Vegetation growth is importantly affected by seasonal weather patterns. The time lag
between changes in these patterns and the vegetative response is an important factor in …

Evaluating the sustainability of rural complex ecosystems during the development of traditional farming villages into tourism destinations: A diachronic emergy …

J Zhu, X Yuan, X Yuan, S Liu, B Guan, J Sun… - Journal of Rural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many villages that have transformed from traditional agricultural communities into tourism
destinations to eliminate poverty are encountering ecological and social crises that threaten …

Emergy-based valuation of agriculture ecosystem services and dis-services

SM Shah, G Liu, Q Yang, X Wang, M Casazza… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
The agriculture ecosystem is very important, complex and humankind largest engineered
ecosystem providing essential ecosystem services as well as many disservices, depending …

Sustainability assessment and emergy analysis of employing the CCHP system under two different scenarios in a data center

M Deymi-Dashtebayaz, M Norani - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The high energy consumption of the data centers is a major challenge in sustainable
development. In addition to the energy consumption of Information Technology (IT) section …

Assessing sustainability of soybean supply in China: Evidence from provincial production and trade data

F Wu, Y Geng, Y Zhang, C Ji, Y Chen, L Sun… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand and limited production, China has to import a large amount of
soybeans. However, soybean has been chosen as one target of the recent trade war …

Emergy unsustainability index for agricultural systems assessment: A proposal based on the laws of thermodynamics

FD Artuzo, G Allegretti, OIB Santos, LX da Silva… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The anthropic effects of agriculture call for more sustainable systems. Agricultural
sustainability conventionally communicates an idea of perennity. However, the sustainability …

[HTML][HTML] Will changing land use and cropping practices affect resource use efficiency and environmental sustainability of agricultural systems? A hierarchical emergy …

HW Tsai, YC Lee - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Rapid loss of agricultural land is occurring in fast-growing urbanizing regions in Asia,
accompanied by shifts from conventional cultivation practices to cope with changing social …

Sustainability accounting of neighborhood metabolism and its applications for urban renewal based on emergy analysis and SBM-DEA

M Tang, J Hong, X Wang, R He - Journal of Environmental Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization exacerbates urban metabolic activities associated with irreversible
environmental degradation. Evaluating urban metabolic performance is an effective method …