A comprehensive quantitative evaluation of new sustainable urbanization level in 20 Chinese urban agglomerations

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Xu, Cong ^a,b   Wang, Shixin ^a   Zhou, Yi ^a   Wang, Litao ^a   Liu, Wenliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Full Permutation polygon synthetic indicator method; Sustainable new urbanization; Urban agglomeration

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA;

EID: 84960369973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8020091     Document Type: Article

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