Weight determination of sustainable development indicators using a global sensitivity analysis method

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Luan, Wenfei ^a,b   Lu, Ling ^a   Li, Xin ^a,c   Ma, Chunfeng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture sustainable development; EFAST algorithm; Entropy method; Global sensitivity analysis; Weight determination

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WEIGHT;

EID: 85013436832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9020303     Document Type: Article

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