Mapping social vulnerability to air pollution: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ge, Yi ^a   Zhang, Haibo ^a   Dou, Wen ^b   Chen, Wenfang ^c   Liu, Ning ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Shi, Yulin ^a   Rao, Wenxin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Projection pursuit cluster model; Social vulnerability index (SVI); Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDEX METHOD; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; JIANGSU; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85011015292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9010109     Document Type: Article

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