Industrial Ecology: The role of manufactured capital in sustainability.
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چکیده
Helga Weisz, Sangwon Suh, and T. E. Graedel Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany; Department of Cultural History and Theory and Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106; and Center for Industrial Ecology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 112 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015