Modelling a thermodynamic-based comparative framework for urban sustainability: Incorporating economic and ecological losses into emergy analysis

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 280-287

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

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Economic and ecological losses; Emergy analysis; Entropy; Sustainable assessment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY POLICY; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INVESTMENTS; PLANNING; PUBLIC POLICY; THERMOANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH; WASTE TREATMENT;

ECOLOGICAL LOSS; EMERGY ANALYSIS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY INDEX; SUSTAINABILITY POLICY; SUSTAINABLE ASSESSMENT; THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CAPITAL; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC POLICY; EMERGY; ENTROPY; INVESTMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84897916937     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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