River Landscape Health Diagnosis - Frame and Method

Abstract:

The paper applied the concepts of Landscape health from the literature review with integration in depth-interview, using the Fuzzy Delphi, Fuzzy Analytic Network Process to develop the River Landscape Health Assessment Indicator System (RLHAIS). The assessment indicators system includes the indicator in 3 aspects, that is, physical and chemical environment indicators, landscape change indicators, ecological environment indicators, and 14 indexes, which were then applied to the RLHAIS to analyze the current landscape health for the Dong-shan River upstream in Yilan. The result showed that the score of Dong-shan River upstream: in 2009 was 0.70881, in 2010 was 0.66235, and in 2011 was 0.68694, implying that the healthy level nearly fell onto the "Degraded" state.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 779-780)
• Pages: 1328-1331
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.779-780.1328
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Che Yu Hsu, Sheng Jung Ou
• Keywords: Dong-Shan River Upstream, Fuzzy Analytic Network Process, River Landscape Health, River Landscape Health Assessment Indicators System (RLHAIS)

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