Sustainability of urban drainage management: A perspective on infrastructure resilience and thresholds

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 658-668

  Ning, Xiong ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Chen, Jining ^a   Dong, Xin ^a   Li, Wangfeng ^b   Liang, Bin ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute   (China)

^c NATIONAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

environmental carrying capacity; fluctuating population; land use; urban runoff; wastewater infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884413099     PISSN: 20952201     EISSN: 2095221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-013-0546-8     Document Type: Article

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