Healthy river and its indication, criteria and standards

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-11

  Liu, Changming ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoyan ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c YELLOW RIVER INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Criteria; Environmental flows; Healthy river; Signal; Standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249119955     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-009-0003-6     Document Type: Article

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