Spatial distribution of the environmental resource consumption in the Heihe River Basin of Northwestern China

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-63

  Wu, Cuifang ^a   Xu, Zhongmin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Environmental resource; Gini coefficient; Regression analysis; Spatial distribution; Theil index

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949281112     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-009-0091-y     Document Type: Article

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