Sustainable Environmental Management from a System of Systems Engineering Perspective

System of Systems Engineering: Innovations for the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 443-481

  Hipel, Keith W ^a   Obeidi, Amer ^a   Fang, Liping ^b   Kilgour, D Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental system of systems; Sustainable environmental management SoSE perspective; Systems of systems methodological applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889455165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470403501.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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