Urban water security evaluation based on similarity measure model of Vague sets

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 41, Issue 35, 2016, Pages 15944-15950

  Lu, Shibao ^a   Bao, Haijun ^a   Pan, Hulin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Comprehensive evaluation; Urban water security; Vague sets; Water security support index

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; ECOLOGICAL SECURITY; EVALUATION MODELING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN WATER SECURITIES; VAGUE SETS; WATER SECURITY; WATER SECURITY EVALUATIONS;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84983034796     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.05.007     Document Type: Article

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