Material circulation, energy hierarchy, and building construction

Construction Ecology: Nature as a Basis for Green Buildings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 37-71

  Odum, Howard T ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203166147     Document Type: Chapter

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