Energy analyses as a tool for sustainability: Lessons from complex system theory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 879, Issue , 1999, Pages 344-367

  Giampietro, Mario ^a   Mayumi, Kozo ^b   Pastore, Gianni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; HUMAN; INCOME; MODEL; NUTRITION; POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0032798189     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb10439.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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