Eco-environmental sustainability assessment of each province in China

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 327-337

  Huang, Bao Rong ^a   Ouyang, Zhi Yun ^a   Zhang, Hui Zhi ^b   Zheng, Hua ^a   Xu, Wei Hua ^a   Wang, Xiao Ke ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Administrative divisions; Assessment; Cluster analysis; Eco environmental quality; Index; Indicator; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549088052     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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