Investigation of environmental quality of roads in Heraklion, Crete

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1120-1140

  Tsouchlaraki, Androniki ^a   Zoaki, Eleftheria ^b,c,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings   (Greece)

^d Environmental Design of Infrastructure Projects   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bio climatic; Environmental quality; Heraklion; Traffic parameters; Urban planning; Urban roads

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ROAD; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN REGION; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IRAKLION [CRETE]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58149143025     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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