Approaches to assessment and GIS mapping of sustainability and environmental well-being of geosystems. Part IV. Integrated assessment of ecological well-being of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

Abstract

This publication is the fourth in a series with this title. It addresses issues of building classifi cations of models of non-additive properties of geosystems (environmental well-being, “ecosystem health”). Examples of classifi cation models of integrated assessment of ecological well-being of the water bodies, terrestrial ecosystems, are given. The authors propose a model-based classification of construction of the integral index of ecological well-being based on the method of summary indicators and the principles of ASPID methodology (analysis and synthesis of information indices under conditions of informational scarcity). Refs 27. Fig 1. Tables 4.