Analysis of river health variation under the background of urbanization based on entropy weight and matter-element model: A case study in Huzhou City in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Environmental Research

Volumn 139, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-35

  Pan, Guangbo ^a   Xu, Youpeng ^a   Yu, Zhihui ^a   Song, Song ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy weight; Matter element model; River health; Urbanization; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PROCEDURES; RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84937965923     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.02.013     Document Type: Article

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