Ecological economic evaluation based on emergy as embodied cosmic exergy: A historical study for the Beijing Urban ecosystem 1978-2004

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1696-1720

  Ming, Jiang Mei ^a,b,c   Zhan Ming, Chen ^b,c   Bo, Zhang ^b,c   Cheng, Li Shuang ^b   Hua, Xia Xiao ^b,c   Yi, Zhou Shi ^b,c   Bo, Zhou Jiang ^b,d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BDA Ltd   (China)

^d EcoSecurities Group (China) Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Ecological economic evaluation; Embodied cosmic exergy; Emergy synthesis; Urban ecosystem

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956396523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12071696     Document Type: Article

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