Spatial Interrelationships of Quality of Life with Land Use/Land Cover, Demography and Urbanization

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1193-1216

  Bhatti, Saad Saleem ^a   Tripathi, Nitin Kumar ^a   Nagai, Masahiko ^a   Nitivattananon, Vilas ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Correlation; Lahore; Land use land cover; Population; Urban quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CORRELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LIFE SATISFACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; URBANIZATION;

LAHORE; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

EID: 84964409617     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1336-z     Document Type: Article

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