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Based on natural and social conditions of the Yellow River estuary area, this paper presents a 4-layer index system which consists of 20 factors, and to evaluate the river net’s health from the aspects of natural functions, ecological functions and social service functions. According to their different features, we utilize different method to evaluate. As for the natural functions and ecological functions, we used single factor evaluating method based on the principle of most pessimistic evaluation. While the social service functions were evaluated with the help of comprehensive evaluating method according the index weight, and different evaluating models corresponding to each layer were thus proposed. It has been proved in case studies that this evaluation method is easy and operable, the results are scientific and reasonable.
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This paper is supported by a grant from the Ministry of Water Resources’ Special Appropriation Line for the Non-profit Public Industry (201201114-02).
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Chen, K., Qian, M., Zhu, B., Chen, M. (2013). Study on the Method for Evaluating Ecological Health of the Main River Network in the Yellow River’s Estuary Area. In: Xu, J., Yasinzai, M., Lev, B. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 185. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4600-1_81
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