Assessing landscape ecological risk in a Mining city: A case study in Liaoyuan City, China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8312-8334

  Peng, Jian ^a   Zong, Minli ^b,c   Hu, Yi'na ^a   Liu, Yanxu ^a   Wu, Jiansheng ^b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

China; Ecological disturbance; Ecological importance; Ecological vulnerability; Liaoyuan City; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MINING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRAIN; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; VULNERABILITY; WELFARE REFORM;

CHINA; LIAOYUAN;

EID: 84938297173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7078312     Document Type: Article

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