Research Article

The Evaluation of Groundwater Resources Value of Beijing Based on Emergy Theory

Table 1

The Summary of the main emergy indexes about the water system of Beijing (unit: 1020 sej).

Emergy indexes20082009201020112012

459324.2378.12397.98508.66
1202.3612871318.711107.09976.8
Renewable environmental resources products712.77727.47711.05698.29687.95
8138.628618.911371.814863.417508.9
EMEX3918.53998.35528.987296.268367.11
5881.486231.87539.619072.2610627.2
75465.18325089993.496928.696935.7
Annual water emergy consumption 333.65364.63383.55351.5385.67
 Water from external EMWE1.836.126.728.039.58
 Water from local EMWL284.06310.52324.03303.37332.97
Emergy/$ EDR (1011 sej/$)46.2944.3148.5151.3559.84
Emergy/RMB EDR (1011 sej/¥)6.766.497.268.119.51

The data of Table 1 have been summarized. The regional data reference is from the following books: [25, 26].