Evaluation of a Low-Carbon City: Method and Application

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1171-1185

  Su, Meirong ^a   Li, Ronghua ^b   Lu, Weiwei ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical diagnosis; Evaluation framework; Low carbon city; Set pair analysis; Synthetic evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880157413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15041171     Document Type: Article

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