Establishment and optimization of an evaluation index system for brownfield redevelopment projects: An empirical study

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 173-182

  Zhu, Yuming ^a   Hipel, Keith W ^b   Ke, Ginger Y ^c   Chen, Ye ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Brownfield redevelopment project; Establishment and optimization; Evaluation index system; Factor analysis; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES; EVALUATION INDEX SYSTEM; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY; STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

BROWNFIELD SITE; DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; REDEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84946541426     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.09.012     Document Type: Article

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