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I. Principi, L. Fugaro & S. Borsa

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Assessing sustainability of the Chianti area: the role of agriculture I. Principi, L. Fugaro & S. Borsa Department of Chemical and Biosystems Sciences, University of Siena, Italy Abstract The Chianti area in the Siena Province comprehends 4 municipalities: Castellina in Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Gaiole in Chianti and Radda in Chianti. In the district more than one-third of available farmed area is dedicated to vineyards, as compared to a provincial average of 9%. Agriculture is, therefore, the major input to the local economy, followed only by tourism. The work presented in this paper is an emergy analysis of the agriculture organization in the Chianti district with the aim of assessing its actual level of sustainability. Emergy analysis and its indices, stressing the relationship between renewable resources and nonrenewable ones, have been widely applied to evaluate sustainability of various systems included agriculture. Results obtained show a management of agriculture activities resp

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