A mathematical description of urban metabolism

Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 275-291

  Kennedy, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infrastructure; Material stock and dynamics; Sustainability; Urban metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929538403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3188-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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