Exploration of Odum's dynamic emergy accounting rules for suggested refinements

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 279, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-44

  Tilley, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergy; Energy analysis; Odum; Simulation; Transformity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EMERGY; ENERGY ANALYSIS; ODUM; SIMULATION; TRANSFORMITY;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EMERGY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84895795713     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.01.031     Document Type: Article

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