A simulation-assessment modeling approach for analyzing environmental risks of groundwater contamination at waste landfill sites

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 373-388

  Liu, L ^a   Cheng, S Y ^b   Guo, H C ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contamination; Environmental risk; Fuzzy set; Landfill; Monte Carlo simulation; Possibility; Probability; Uncertainly; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544282679     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030490438436     Document Type: Article

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