Relative urban ecosystem health assessment: A method integrating comprehensive evaluation and detailed analysis

EcoHealth

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 459-472

  Su, Meirong ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Chen, Bin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

assessment framework; clustering; emergy synthesis; relativity; set pair analysis; urban ecosystem health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80052625906     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-011-0674-1     Document Type: Article

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