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Developing a Hybrid Technology Evaluation Model for Minimization of the Cost of the Dynamic Effects of Changes and Resource Consumption on Ecosystem Sustainability

Bararzadeh Ledari, Masoomeh | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Ph.D. Dissertation
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 54621 (46)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Energy Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Saboohi, Yadollah
  7. Abstract:
  8. Rapid population growth and increasing and rapid consumption of natural resources in the ecosystem leads to the destruction of resources and thus increases the entropy in the earth, and this increase in entropy in the ecosystem changes the environment and has adverse effects on it. As all components in nature interact with each other by action and reaction, therefore, any change in the environment must be adjusted by other sectors and approached a reversible process to enable sustainable ecosystem changes. On the other hand, there is evidence that the world's physical capacity is inadequate to meet the requirements of sustainable development. The reason for this fact is that the ecological concept of "carrying capacity” can not always continue due to limited resources in the world, economic and social growth. Occurrence of recession due to growth barriers is possible, but the key question is where the system's limiting boundaries are and to what extent intelligent resource exploitation can reduce the resource constraints. The sustainable development requirements of society require that economic development be subject to social, environmental, and natural resource constraints and that the disposal of waste from natural resources use in the ecosystem be consistent with the environment absorption capacity. In this case, the main question in this research proposal is to identify how to regulate the relationship between the components and different dimensions of sustainable development and identify the optimal point of nature exploitation in multidimensional space and to find the answer to this question, it is necessary to formulate and solve a specific problem. Formulation and regulation of the basic problem to identify the optimal process of nature exploitation require examining the mutual relationship and evaluating the effective factors on the ecosystem, society, and the economy. In industrial ecology, ecological concepts are used to improve industrial systems and their sustainability. Agricultural development, nutrient circulation, waste management, water and carbon dioxide emissions, and the economic estimation of industrial systems with improving the mutual relationship between different sectors using an efficient methodology in the framework of sustainable rural development are important issues. In this study, an integrated model of sustainable regional development was developed to reduce material and energy consumption directly and indirectly, also considering the importance of economic development in a rural area. This framework provides a tool for regional planning based on the integration of matter, energy, and environmental management with economic growth prediction. Regional planning includes the prediction of the amount of nutrients (estimating SOM(soil organic matter followed by estimating phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium), waste management for eco-industrial development, developing natural resources (mangrove forests) using natural resource depletion control (biomass production), development of a sustainable agricultural chain (analysis of nutrient limitation according to Liebig's law) and the restoration and revitalization of waste flows for matter management. This model is developed based on the demand (in two scenarios: with and without sustainable tourism development) and supply chains in the ecosystem and human effects. In addition, various scenarios for minimizing matter and energy consumption and developing sustainable technologies in rural areas along with maximizing value-added and minimizing environmental effect were investigated in the form of ecological efficiency index over twenty years
  9. Keywords:
  10. Thermogeological Cost ; Ecosystem Tolerance Level Variation ; Integrated Energy and Environmental Management ; Hybrid Technology Regional Modeling ; Ecosystem Regenerator ; Ecosystem Quality Changes

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