Living in a Network of Scaling Cities and Finite Resources

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 390-407

  Qubbaj, Murad R ^a   Shutters, Shade T ^a   Muneepeerakul, Rachata ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Population resource dynamics; Scaling; Sustainability; Urban networks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CITY; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84939891556     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-014-9949-3     Document Type: Article

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