Diversity and other emergent properties of industrial economies

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 24-38

  Templet, Paul H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic diversity; economic system; emergent properties; energy; energy intensity; waste intensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746305442     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/pie.2004.004670     Document Type: Article

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