東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

An ecological perspective of the ene...

University of Maryland, College Park., Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

An ecological perspective of the energy basis of sustainable Bolivian natural resources: Forests and natural gas.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An ecological perspective of the energy basis of sustainable Bolivian natural resources: Forests and natural gas./
Author:	Izursa, Jose-Luis.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Adviser: David R. Tilley.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05B.
Subject:	Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3307884
ISBN:	9780549573456

An ecological perspective of the energy basis of sustainable Bolivian natural resources: Forests and natural gas.
Izursa, Jose-Luis.

An ecological perspective of the energy basis of sustainable Bolivian natural resources: Forests and natural gas. - 248 p.

Adviser: David R. Tilley.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.

Bolivia, traditionally known for being a country rich in natural resources, has suffered from a constant exploitation of its natural resources benefiting only small groups in and outside the country. The devastation of natural resources that occurred for many years was of concern to the latest government, rural communities and indigenous groups. As a result, Bolivia has a more sustainability-oriented forest law that has a strong orientation towards the utilization of natural resources at a national level and encompasses a fast-growing forestry industry than in previous years.

ISBN: 9780549573456Subjects--Topical Terms:

783690
Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.

An ecological perspective of the energy basis of sustainable Bolivian natural resources: Forests and natural gas.
LDR:03414nam 2200325 a 45 001 856754
005 20100709
008 100709s2008 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780549573456
035 $a (UMI)AAI3307884
035 $a AAI3307884
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Izursa, Jose-Luis. $3 1023616
245 1 3 $a An ecological perspective of the energy basis of sustainable Bolivian natural resources: Forests and natural gas.
300 $a 248 p.
500 $a Adviser: David R. Tilley.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: B, page: 2880.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
520 $a Bolivia, traditionally known for being a country rich in natural resources, has suffered from a constant exploitation of its natural resources benefiting only small groups in and outside the country. The devastation of natural resources that occurred for many years was of concern to the latest government, rural communities and indigenous groups. As a result, Bolivia has a more sustainability-oriented forest law that has a strong orientation towards the utilization of natural resources at a national level and encompasses a fast-growing forestry industry than in previous years.
520 $a In this dissertation, the wealth of Bolivia's national system was evaluated using solar emergy. Emergy (spelled with "m") is the sum of all energy of one form needed to develop a flow of energy of another form, over a period of time. The basic idea is that solar energy is our ultimate energy source and by expressing the value of products in solar emergy units, it becomes possible to compare different kinds of energy, allowing to express the value for the natural resources in Emergy Dollars. It was found out that Bolivia relies heavily in its natural resources and that its emergy exchange ratio with its international trading partners changed from 12.2 to 1 in 2001 to 6.2 to 1 in 2005. This means that Bolivia went from export 12.2 emdollars of goods for each $1 it received in 2001 to export 6.2 emdollars of products for each $1 it received in 2005. The study also showed that under forest certification practices less emergy is removed from forests (1.49E+19 sej/yr) compared to the amount of emergy removed (2.36E+19 sej/yr) under traditional uncertified practices, reflecting that forest ecology does better under certification.
520 $a The "Ecologically-based Development for the Bolivian Industrial Forestry System" (DEBBIF) simulation model constructed during this study, compared four different scenarios: the Reference Scenario, the Increased Export Scenario, the Increased Domestic Use Scenario and the National Industrialization Scenario. Using two different levels of increment for each scenario, the outcomes of six variables were analyzed: soil, wood, natural gas, assets, money and debt. It was found that if the country doubles its use of natural resources to generate finished products, this will build more assets for Bolivia, and represent more income for the country and a better rate of emergy per person.
590 $a School code: 0117.
650 4 $a Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. $3 783690
650 4 $a Economics, General. $3 1017424
650 4 $a Energy. $3 876794
650 4 $a Environmental Sciences. $3 676987
690 $a 0478
690 $a 0501
690 $a 0768
690 $a 0791
710 2 $a University of Maryland, College Park. $b Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences. $3 1023615
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 69-05B.
790 $a 0117
790 1 0 $a Tilley, David R., $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2008
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3307884