Accessibility and equity assessment on urban green space

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3375-3383

  Yin, Hai Wei ^a   Kong, Fan Hua ^a   Zong, Yue Guang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Equity; Index system; Urban green space

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349109597     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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