How to guide a sustainable industrial economy: Emergy account for resources input of Chinese industry

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-59

  Zhang, B ^a   Chen, G Q ^a   Yang, Q ^a   Chen, Z M ^a   Chen, B ^b   Li, Z ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese industry; Emergy; Resources input

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CARBON; FOSSIL FUELS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

CHINESE INDUSTRY; EMERGY; EMERGY ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EMISSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; INDUSTRIAL OUTPUTS; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCES INPUTS;

MINERAL RESOURCES;

EID: 84863121270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.03.047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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