Construction and engineering of a created environment: Overview of the Biosphere 2 closed system

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 43-63

  Zabel, Bernd ^a   Hawes, Phil ^a   Stuart, Hewitt ^a   Marino, Bruno D V ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere 2; Biospherics; Closed system construction; Closed system glazing

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE 2; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032771845     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(98)00091-3     Document Type: Article

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