Supply-side sustainability

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 403-427

  Allen, T F H ^a   Tainter, Joseph A ^b   Hoekstra, T W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Average product; Benefit; Collapse; Commerce; Complexity; Complicatedness; Cost; Economics; Ecosystem; Elaboration; Emergence; Energy; Global; Gradient; Hierarchy; History; Infrastructure; Management; Marginal Product; Organization; Positive feedback; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033418459     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199909/10)16:5<403::AID-SRES335>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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