Using Web‐Based Technology to Bring Hands‐On Urban Material Flow Analysis to the Classroom.
Summary: The main objective of this article is to introduce an open‐source, online software tool called OMAT as a teaching tool for performing economy wide‐material flow analysis (EW‐MFA) at urban or regional level in industrial ecology curricula. To that intent, we present a classroom and project a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Industrial Ecology Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 434 - 443 |
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