Environmental accounting: Emergy, systems ecology, and ecological modelling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 271, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-3

  Franzese, Pier Paolo ^a   Brown, Mark T ^b   Ulgiati, Sergio ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

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EID: 84887528670     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.10.007     Document Type: Editorial

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