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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fartout Enayat, Fatemeh
• Ghanbari, Seyed Ahmad
• Asgharipour, Mohammad Reza
• Seyedabadi, Esmaeel

Titel

Emergy ecological footprint analysis of Yaghooti grape production in the Sistan region of Iran

Ist Teil von

• Ecological modelling, 2023-07, Vol.481, p.110332, Article 110332

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •This study examines the sustainability of Sistan's Yaghooti grape production system using the emergy ecological footprint method.•The Yaghooti grape is the most important agricultural crop in Sistan, essential to its economy and way of life.•Using the emergy ecological footprint method, this study translates human activities in the Yaghooti grape system into thermodynamic terms.•The grape fields in this research had an emegy carrying capacity of 3.93E+08 Gha.•Due to environmental protection's prominent role, the production system is ecologically secure. The Yaghooti grape is the most important garden product in Sistan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, and plays a significant role in the region's economy and way of life. This novel study employs the emergy ecological footprint method to investigate the sustainability of the Yaghooti grape production system. Towards this end, this study employs data collected in 2019 from grape production systems in five cities located in Iran's Sistan region, including Zabol, Zahak, Hamoun, Hirmand, and Nimroz Counties. Using the emergy environmental burden index, this study attempts for the first time to quantify the nonrenewable environmental resources that are lost during the production process. Emergy carrying capacity was calculated to be 3.93E+08 Gha for all grape fields in this study. The emergy ecological footprint in this study was 1.125E+08 Gha. The grape production system in this region has an emergy ecological burden of 0.401 and an emergy ecological footprint intensity of 0.286. As a result of its prominent role in environmental protection, the production system maintains an ecological surplus, does not face significant ecological pressure, and is thus ecologically secure. Despite these positive effects of the production system, 1.35E+09 ha of fertile land is unavailable annually in the Sistan region due to grape production. [Display omitted]