Frank H. George research award - Highly commended paper eco-cybernetics: The ecology and cybernetics of missing emergences

Kybernetes

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2000, Pages 928-942

  Bergandi, Donato ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Ecologie Generale   (France)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Ecosystem; General living systems theory

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYBERNETICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CAMPBELL; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGIES; EMERGENT PROPERTY; HOLISTIC APPROACH; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIVING SYSTEMS; MULTILEVELS;

ECOSYSTEMS; CYBERNETICS;

GENERAL LIVING SYSTEMS THEORY; LANDSCAPES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 0034371446     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920010342044     Document Type: Article

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