Emergy-based ecological economic evaluation of Beijing urban ecosystem

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 18-24

  Liu, Gengyuan ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Chen, Bin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Economy; Emergy evaluation; Indicators; Urban metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); INVESTMENTS; METABOLISM;

ASSIMILATIVE CAPACITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMY; EMERGY EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; URBAN METABOLISMS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84863181725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.03.042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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