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Using the Language of Sets to Describe Nested Systems in Emergy Evaluations
Citation:
Morandi, F., D. Campbell, R. Puselli, AND S. Bastianoni. Using the Language of Sets to Describe Nested Systems in Emergy Evaluations. ECOLOGICAL MODELLING. Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 265:85-98, (2013).
Impact/Purpose:
The paper entitled “Using the Language of Sets to Describe Nested Systems in Emergy Evaluations” is expected to have a moderate to high impact on emergy evaluations and similar methodologies. Since the paper is mathematical and has direct practical application to solve a difficult and important problem in environmental accounting the probability of high impact is greater that for papers published on the analysis of particular systems or processes.
Description:
The language of set theory has been recently used to describe the emergy evaluation of a process. In this paper this mathematical language is used as a guide to evaluate the emergy of nested systems. We analyze a territorial system on multiple scales as an example of hierarchically nested systems. In this regard, we consider two levels of organization of a territorial system with particular attention to defining the relationships between the flows at each level and between the levels. Our method is designed to make quantifying the interactions among levels easier and more accurate.
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ABSTRACTMORANDIE ORD-000431.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 20.063 KB, about PDF)http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380013002901
