A new assessment method for urbanization environmental impact: Urban environment entropy model and its application

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 146, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 433-439

  Ouyang, Tingping ^a   Fu, Shuqing ^a   Zhu, Zhaoyu ^a   Kuang, Yaoqiu ^a   Huang, Ningsheng ^a   Wu, Zhifeng ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental impact assessment; Thermodynamic entropy; Urban environment entropy; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; RIVER POLLUTION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY; URBAN ENVIRONMENT ENTROPY; URBANIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS;

RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODELING; SURFACE WATER; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RELIABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

CHINA; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; THERMODYNAMICS; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 53649107005     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0089-1     Document Type: Article

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