Sustainability at the local scale: Defining highly aggregated indices for assessing environmental performance. The province of Reggio Emilia (Italy) as a case study

Environmental Management

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 590-608

  Clerici, Nicola ^a   Bodini, Antonio ^a   Ferrarini, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental quality; Fuzzy sets; Indicators; Local planning; Principal component analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUZZY SETS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WEIGHTING SYSTEM;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LOCAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ITALY; METHODOLOGY;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUZZY LOGIC; ITALY; POLICY MAKING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EMILIA;

EID: 23444451453     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0196-x     Document Type: Article

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