Environmental informatics - A new paradigm for coping with complexity in nature

Complexity International

Volumn 6, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Green, David G ^a   Klomp, Nicholas I ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MANAGERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 4143126935     PISSN: 13200682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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