Integrating human and natural systems sustainably: Emergy evaluation and visualization of the Abruzzo Region

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2009, Pages 273-278

  Pulselli, R M ^a   Romano, P ^a   Bogunovich, D ^b   Pulselli, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emergy evaluation; Emergy geography; Environmental accounting; Spatial patterns; Urban metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958758024     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ECO090261     Document Type: Article

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