An overall index of environmental quality in coal mining areas and energy facilities

Environmental Management

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1031-1045

  Vatalis, Konstantinos I ^a   Kaliampakos, Demetrios C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coal mining activities; Environmental quality index; Fuzzy Delphi method; Greece; Pairwise comparison

Indexed keywords

COAL MINES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY SETS; POWER PLANTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYING;

COAL MINING ACTIVITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INDEX (EQI); FUZZY DELPHI METHOD; GREECE; PAIRWISE COMPARISON;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

COAL MINING; DELPHI ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS;

ARTICLE; COAL MINING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EVALUATION; GREECE; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; POLLUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS;

COAL MINING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENT; GREECE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751247948     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0114-5     Document Type: Article

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