Relationship between air pollutants and economic development of the provincial capital cities in China during the past decade

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Luo, Yunpeng ^a   Chen, Huai ^a,b   Zhu, QiU'An ^a   Peng, Changhui ^a,c   Yang, Gang ^a   Yang, Yanzheng ^a   Zhang, Yao ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CAPITAL; CHINA; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HISTORY; INDUSTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CITIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INDUSTRY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 84905474604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104013     Document Type: Article

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