emergy investment ratio

noun

The ratio of purchased emergy to the local free environmental emergy.

Meanings

nounemergy investment ratio (plural emergy investment ratios)

plural emergy investment ratios

  1. biologyThe ratio of purchased emergy to the local free environmental emergy.

Origin

Attributed to author Howard T. Odum.

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