Emergy analysis of the urban metabolism of Beijing

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2377-2384

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Liu, Gengyuan ^a   Yu, Xiangyi ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chemical Registration Center of MEP   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Emergy analysis; Emergy indices; Metabolic flows; Urban ecosystem

Indexed keywords

BEIJING; EMERGY ANALYSIS; EMERGY INDICES; METABOLIC FLOW; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RATING;

METABOLISM;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMERGY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; METABOLISM; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 79959340313     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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