The water quality index (WQI) model is a popular tool for evaluating surface water quality. It
uses aggregation techniques that allow conversion of extensive water quality data into a …

Biodiversity is presently a minor consideration in environmental policy. It has been regarded
as too broad and vague a concept to be applied to real‐world regulatory and management …

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a nationwide lockdown is imposed in India initially for three
weeks from 24th March to 14th April 2020 and extended up to 3rd May 2020. Due to the …

Some basic principles of additive and multiplicative effects can easily be demonstrated with
the help of two ordinary dice with sides numbered from 1 to 6. Adding the two numbers …

Human activities continue to affect our water quality; it remains a major problem worldwide
(particularly concerning freshwater and human consumption). A critical water quality index …

This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been
developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who …

A variety of water quality indices have been used to assess the state of waterbodies all over
the world. In calculating a Water Quality Index (WQI), traditional methods require the …

Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-
specific information on the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic …

Abstract Diversity Indices, Biotic Indices and Similarity Indices are reviewed considering
their ecological application, both theoretical and practical. Eighteen diversity indices in eight …

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the
latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the …