A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Quality Assessment Methods for Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils1 1 Project supported by the PhD Fund of the National Education Ministry of China (No. 20030284038) and the International Foundation for Science (No. W/4215).

Pedosphere

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 344-352

  LI, Wei Xin ^a,b   ZHANG, Xu Xiang ^a   WU, Bing ^a   SUN, Shi Lei ^a   CHEN, Yan Song ^c   PAN, Wen Yang ^a   ZHAO, Da Yong ^a   CHENG, Shu Pei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Environmental Protection Administration   (China)

^c Anhui Institute of Education   (China)

Author keywords

environmental assessment; fuzzy mathematical model; heavy metal pollution; pollution index method; soil

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEAVY METAL; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 43049167179     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60024-7     Document Type: Article

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