Urban metabolism: Many open questions for future answers

Pathways to Environmental Sustainability: Methodologies and Experiences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 23-32

  Ioppolo, Giuseppe ^a   Heijungs, Reinout ^b,c   Cucurachi, Stefano ^b   Salomone, Roberta ^a   Kleijn, René ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eco governance; Industrial ecology; Material flow account; Strategic environmental assessment; Urban metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907169260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03826-1_3     Document Type: Chapter

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