A dimensionally consistent aggregation framework for biophysical metrics
Author(s) Name: Deepak Malghan
Journal Name : Ecological Economics
Volume : Vol. 70, No. 5, PP 900-909, 15 March 2011
Year of Publication : 2011
Abstract :We develop a formal representation of the economy-ecosystem interaction problem by distinguishing between stock-flow, and fund-flux spaces (Georgescu-Rogen, 1971). We then define dimensionless quantities in both the cardinal stock-flow space and the ordinal fund-flux space. We show that a stock-fund representation of the economy-ecosytem interaction problem helps investigate aggregation properties of biophysical metrics.