The epistemological predicament associated with purposive quantitative analysis

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 307-327

  Giampietro, Mario ^a   Allen, Timothy F H ^b   Mayumi, Kozo ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Formal identity; Holons; Modeling relation; Rosen; Scale; Science for governance; Semiotic closure; Semiotic identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147131249     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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