Evaluation of ecosystem health for regional development in the southwestern Beijing, China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-317

  Liu, Xuehua ^a   Zhang, Shuang ^a   Xu, Haoyang ^a,c   Shao, Xiaoming ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Ecosystem health; Remote sensing; Southwestern Beijing

Indexed keywords

EID: 49149117174     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-008-0047-3     Document Type: Article

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