Energy budget of the biosphere and civilization: Rethinking environmental security of global renewable and non-renewable resources

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 281-288

  Makarieva, Anastassia M ^a,b   Gorshkov, Victor G ^a,b   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biota; Climate; Coal; Ecosystem services; Electric power; Energy efficiency; Fossil fuel; Gas; Greenhouse effect; Hydropower; Nuclear power; Oil; Primary productivity; Solar power; Stability; Wind power

Indexed keywords

EID: 56449103915     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.05.005     Document Type: Note

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