Fuzzy pricing for urban water resources: Model construction and application

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 458-466

  Zhao, Ranhang ^a,b   Chen, Shouyu ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy pricing model; Multi criterion fuzzy evaluation; Urban water resources; Water price; Water resources value

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COSTS; GROUNDWATER; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

FUZZY EVALUATION; FUZZY PRICING MODEL; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA FUZZY EVALUATION; MULTI-CRITERION; PRICING MODELS; RESOURCE VALUE; URBAN WATER RESOURCES; WATER PRICES; WATER RESOURCE VALUE; WATERS RESOURCES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PRICE DETERMINATION; URBAN AREA; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHINA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FUZZY SYSTEM; LAW; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECT; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JINAN [SHANDONG]; SHANDONG;

CHINA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; MODELS, ECONOMIC; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 43849110958     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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