Exergy as a Tool for Ecosystem Health Assessment
Exergy is demonstrated to be a useful measurable parameter reflecting the state of the ecosystem, and allowing estimation of the severity of its anthropogenous damage. Exergy is shown to have advantages such as good theoretical basis in thermodynamics, close relation to information theory, rather hi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2010-04-01
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Series: | Entropy |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/4/902/ |