A smart MCDM framework to evaluate the impact of air pollution on city sustainability: A case study from China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Qingyong ^a   Dai, Hong Ning ^a   Wang, Hao ^b  

^a MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); Neural network; Sustainability; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACK PROPAGATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 85020011478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9060911     Document Type: Article

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