Constructions of an evaluation framework for soil and water conservation techniques

Catena

Volumn 186, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Luo, Han ^a,b   Hu, Xiaoning ^a   Xie, Yongsheng ^a,b   Wang, Jijun ^a,b   Guo, Mancai ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

AHP method; Small watersheds; Technique evaluation; Weighted composite index method

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPOSITE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; INDEX METHOD; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PLANNING METHOD; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER STRESS; WATERSHED;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 85076102111     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2019.104378     Document Type: Article

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