FIFTH BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE  

January 31 - February 2, 2008
J. Wayne Reitz Union, Grand Ballroom, Salons A & E,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

 
Background:
This is the fifth in an ongoing series of biennial meetings held on the campus of the University of Florida. The purpose is to provide a venue and forum for meaningful discussion dedicated to theory, principles, and applications of the emergy methodology.

Meeting Organization:
The meeting will be organized into two and a half days of presentations (Thursday, Friday and Saturday January 31 - February 2, 2008). Papers on theory, methodology, and applications of emergy are welcome. As always, we will allow self-organization to prevail in developing the meeting agenda. Participants are encouraged to contact colleagues to develop a "set of papers" that somehow reinforce each other around a particular theme. Should this occur, send us an email suggesting the subject of the theme and titles of the papers. In case there are no self-organized themes, we will coalesce papers into sessions in the Fall.

Papers and Posters
Participants are encouraged to present a 20-30 minute paper on new developments related to theory, methods and/or applications of emergy analysis. We will also have a special poster session for those wishing to present evaluations which may foster more detailed discussion. Since we are trying to avoid parallel sessions, we may not have enough time for all papers and this year select papers for oral presentations.

Publication of Proceedings
We will publish the proceedings. Each participant should bring a 10-page manuscript to the conference (electronic copy please, see author guidelines). Papers will be peer-reviewed, returned to authors for corrections and then published in the book of proceedings.

Organizing Committee
Mark T. Brown, Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville
Dan Campbell, USEPA, Narragansett, RI
Vito Comar, Instituto de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Dourados, MS, Brazil
Shu Li Huang, Grad Institute of Urban Planning, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Enrique Ortega, Laboratory of Ecological Engineering, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Torbjorn Rydberg. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
David R. Tilley, Biological Resources Engineering, University of Maryland College Park
Sergio Ulgiati, Department of Chemistry, University of Siena, Italy