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Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems

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Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2010

Electronic Green Journal - UCKA, 2010

Natural Resources Forum, UN, 2009

Regional Environmental Change, 2009

Physics Today, January 2009

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Survey of Geophysics 2008

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