Relationships of groundwater quality and associated health risks with land use/land cover patterns: A case study in a loess area, Northwest China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2019, Pages 354-373

  He, Song ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

groundwater pollution; health risks; land use land cover; Loess Plateau; Water quality index

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061035399     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2019.1570463     Document Type: Article

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