Establishment of environmental sustainability assessment indicators based on material flow and ecological footprint model in Tongling city of Anhui Province

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2025-2032

  Zhao, Huihui ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Gu, Xueming ^a   Wang, Yichen ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Sun, Yousheng ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongling Planning and Designing Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Factor analysis; Material flow analysis; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ANHUI; CHINA; TONGLING;

EID: 84864208051     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201110301619     Document Type: Article

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