ABSTRACT
In the last decade, methods of environmental accounting have been performed, combined with geographic information systems (GIS), in order to develop a spatial analysis of man-made and natural processes and their impacts within a region. Among others, the greenhouse gas inventory (hereafter GHG for greenhouse gases) accounts for emissions and removals of GHG, in terms of equivalent CO2 (t CO2eq), and the emergy evaluation measures the intensity of environmental resource use by a population settled in an area, in terms of equivalent solar energy (solar emergy Joules-seJ).
