Building a systemic environmental monitoring and indicators for sustainability: What has the ecological network approach to offer?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-148

  Bodini, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascendency; Ecosystem; Environmental indicators; Growth and development; Monitoring system; Network analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW STRUCTURE;

ASCENDENCY; AVERAGE MUTUAL INFORMATION; ECOLOGICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FLOW STRUCTURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; WATER FLOW;

EID: 80054753580     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.09.032     Document Type: Article

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