A new assessment approach for urban ecosystem health basing on maximum information entropy method

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1601-1613

  Zhao, Shuai ^a   Chai, Lihe ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Health standard; Information entropy; Maximum information entropy method (MIEM); Urban ecosystem health (UEH)

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HEALTH; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

ASSESSMENT APPROACHES; ASSESSMENT MODELS; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; HEALTH STANDARDS; INFORMATION ENTROPY; MAXIMUM INFORMATION ENTROPY; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HOLISTIC APPROACH; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; DALIAN; FUJIAN; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU; HUBEI; LIAONING; SHANGHAI; WUHAN; XIAMEN;

EID: 84938424254     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-015-1024-6     Document Type: Article

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