Nitrate in groundwater of China: Sources and driving forces

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1112-1121

  Gu, Baojing ^a,b   Ge, Ying ^a,b   Chang, Scott X ^c   Luo, Weidong ^a   Chang, Jie ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Driving force; High resolution; Landfill; Nitrate; Pollution; Source

Indexed keywords

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE; LANDFILL; LEAKAGE; NITRATE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLLUTANT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84886718486     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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