Evaluating land ecological security and examining its relationships with driving factors using GIS and generalized additive model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 633, Issue , 2018, Pages 1469-1479

  Feng, Yongjiu ^a,b   Yang, Qianqian ^a   Tong, Xiaohua ^c   Chen, Lijuan ^b,d  

^a SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Generalized additive model; Land ecological security; Ningbo; Spatial determinants; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

ECOLOGICAL SECURITY; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; NINGBO; SPATIAL DETERMINANTS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; KRIGING; LAND USE PLANNING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND ECOLOGICAL SECURITY; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ECOSYSTEM; KRIGING; SEASHORE; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; CIXI; NINGBO; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85044919751     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.272     Document Type: Article

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