Assessing a riverfront rehabilitation project using the comprehensive index of public accessibility

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-87

  Che, Yue ^a   Yang, Kai ^a   Chen, Ting ^a   Xu, Qixin ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Public accessibility; Riverfront; Stream rehabilitation; Suzhou Creek

Indexed keywords

FIELD DATA; INDEX SYSTEMS; PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY; REHABILITATION PROJECTS; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; RIVERFRONT; SOCIAL BENEFITS; SPATIAL CONTINUITY; STREAM REHABILITATION; SUZHOU CREEK; URBAN STREAM; VEGETATION CONDITION; VISUAL FIELDS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; URBAN PLANNING;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; INDEX METHOD; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RIVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; SUZHOU CREEK;

EID: 84855283467     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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