Application and assessment of the Environmental Vulnerability Index in Greece

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1699-1706

  Skondras, Nikolaos A ^a   Karavitis, Christos A ^a   Gkotsis, Ippokratis I ^b   Scott, P J B ^c   Kaly, Ursula L ^d   Alexandris, Stavros G ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Kato Asites ^*  (Greece)

^c CARIAD Consultants   (Greece)

^d Tautai Ltd   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental pressures; Environmental Vulnerability Index; Greece; Natural resources; Vulnerability quantification and measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE INDEX; ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL INSTABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY INDEX; GEOSCIENCES; GREECE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; VULNERABILITY QUANTIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NATURAL RESOURCE; VULNERABILITY;

GREECE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79958111934     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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