Combining AHP with GIS in synthetic evaluation of environmental suitability for living in China's 35 major cities

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1603-1623

  Xu, Yuyue ^a,b   Sun, Jiulin ^a   Zhang, Jinqu ^a   Xu, Yong ^c   Zhang, Mingwu ^d   Liao, Xiuying ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; China; GIS; living environment suitability; provincial capital; weight

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA;

CHINA;

EID: 84866680227     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.642800     Document Type: Article

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