Quality criteria for environmental risk assessment software using the example of EUSES

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 217-222

  Schwartz, Stefan ^b   Berding, Volker ^b   Trapp, Stefan ^b   Matthies, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Environmental risk assessment; EUSES; Evaluation of software; Good modelling practice; Quality criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442766183     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02986404     Document Type: Article

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