Assessment of urban ecosystem health based on entropy weight extension decision model in urban agglomeration

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Yang, Qian ^a,b   Lin, Aiwen ^a,b   Zhao, Zhenzhen ^a,b   Zou, Ling ^a,b   Sun, Cheng ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy weight method; Extension; Middle reaches of the Yangtze River; Urban agglomeration; Urban ecosystem health

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEVELOPMENT LEVEL; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN CAPITAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84990931490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8090869     Document Type: Article

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