Introduction and overview

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Lenz, Roman ^a   Malkina Pykh, Irina G ^b   Pykh, Yuri ^b  

^a Fachhochschule fur Kunsttherapie Nurtingen   (Germany)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Environmental indicators; Environmental indices; Systems approach; Workshop results

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034210158     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00225-8     Document Type: Article

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