An integrated approach to modelling the economy-society-ecology system in urbanization process

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1946-1972

  Liu, Yunqiang ^a   Xu, Jiuping ^b   Luo, Huawei ^a  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupling coordination degree; ESE; Matter element model; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION;

CHENGDU; CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 84899137352     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6041946     Document Type: Article

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