Carbon Footprinting of Cities and Implications for Analysis of Urban Material and Energy Flows

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 783-785

  Ramaswami, Anu ^a   Chavez, Abel ^b   Chertow, Marian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENERGY FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84871178597     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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