Assessment of water environmental carrying capacity for sustainable development using a coupled system dynamics approach applied to the Tieling of the Liao River Basin, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5173-5183

  Yang, Junfeng ^a,b   Lei, Kun ^b   Khu, Soonthiam ^c   Meng, Wei ^b   Qiao, Fei ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment methodology; Carrying capacity; Sustainable development; System dynamics; Water environment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CARRYING CAPACITY (CABLES); PLANNING; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; SYSTEM THEORY; WATERSHEDS;

ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CARRYING CAPACITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; WATER ENVIRONMENTS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84939988381     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4230-0     Document Type: Article

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