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SCALE: Software for CALculating Emergy based on life cycle inventories

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  • Marvuglia, Antonino
  • Benetto, Enrico
  • Rios, Gordon
  • Rugani, Benedetto

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Emergy analysis is an environmental accounting approach which evaluates the memory of the geobiosphere exergy (environmental work) supporting economic systems, e.g. to make a product or service available via the use of natural resources.

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  • Marvuglia, Antonino & Benetto, Enrico & Rios, Gordon & Rugani, Benedetto, 2013. "SCALE: Software for CALculating Emergy based on life cycle inventories," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 248(C), pages 80-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:248:y:2013:i:c:p:80-91
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.09.013
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