Ecological Economic Evaluation Based on Emergy as Embodied Cosmic Exergy: A Historical Study for the Beijing Urban Ecosystem 1978–2004

For ecological economic evaluation based on the unified biophysical matrix this research illustrates an updated emergy synthesis in terms of embodied cosmic exergy instead of embodied solar energy, which successes the foundation of systems ecological theory but changes the starting point for the est...

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Main Authors: Jiang Mei Ming, Chen Zhan-Ming, Zhang Bo, Li Shuang Cheng, Xia Xiao Hua, Zhou Shi Yi, Zhou Jiang Bo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-06-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/7/1696/