Are the drylands in northern China sustainable? A perspective from ecological footprint dynamics from 1990 to 2010

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 553, Issue , 2016, Pages 223-231

  Li, Jingwei ^a   Liu, Zhifeng ^a   He, Chunyang ^a   Tu, Wei ^b   Sun, Zexiang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drylands in northern China; Ecological footprint; Multiple scales; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; MULTIPLE SCALE; NORTHERN CHINA; RAPID URBANIZATIONS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARID DRYLAND; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY SUBHUMID DRYLAND; DRYLAND; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HYPER ARID DRYLAND; LAND BIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMIARID DRYLAND;

CHINA;

EID: 84960910072     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.088     Document Type: Article

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