Scale, causality, complexity and emergence: Rethinking scale's ontological significance

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 462-474

  Chapura, Mitch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristotle; Causality; Complex systems theory; Ontology; Poultry industry; Scale

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; PHILOSOPHY; POULTRY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70350286238     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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