The study of a method of regional environmental risk assessment

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3290-3296

  Xu, Linyu ^a   Liu, Guiyou ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grid method; Information diffusion; Regional environmental risk assessment; Risk partition

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

DIFFUSION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GRID METHODS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PARTITION; RISKS ASSESSMENTS; SPATIAL SCALE;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUZZY SYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LANDSCAPE; MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 69249205420     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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