Rates of urbanisation and the resiliency of air and water quality

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 400, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 238-256

  Duh, Jiunn Der ^a   Shandas, Vivek ^a   Chang, Heejun ^a   George, Linda A ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Megacities; Rapid urbanisation; Resiliency; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; POLLUTION;

CONSISTENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITIES; GLOBAL CITIES; GROWTH TRENDS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; LINKING; MEGACITIES; MULTIPLE FACTORS; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; RAPID RATES; RAPID URBANISATION; RESILIENCY; URBAN AREAS; URBAN DEVELOPMENTS; VARIATIONS OF; WATER QUALITY IMPACTS;

WATER QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; MEGACITY; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION; WATER;

EID: 54349125066     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.002     Document Type: Review

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