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A hierarchical approach to the sustainable management of controlled ecological life support systems: part 2, systems

C W Pawlowski1, D M Auslander

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. chrisp@biosys2.me.berkeley.edu

Life Support & Biosphere Science : International Journal of Earth Space
|September 7, 2001
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