Analysis by means of variable normalization for a model of seasonal water environmental planning

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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-28132016000200006

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environmental planning, normalization, municipal treatment plant wastewater, watershed

Abstract

For transformation of independent variables representing a complex situation in a river basin and its interaction with the plants, wastewater treatment, the process of normalization of variables and analogous construction of a normalized vector of environmental quality is important for the abstraction of a model. Also the changes in the integrity of environmental factors in the environmental dynamics of the watershed, once defined the region. The method used in this study is documentary, explanatory and descriptive by collecting secondary information for the development of normalization of environmental quality variables. The results establish that the methods applied to maximize and minimize data set are more suited to the environmental quality variables. An analysis of normalization methods presents a procedure that keeps the proportionality maximizing or minimizing of independent variables in the model of seasonal water environmental planning within the range of concurrent assessment of environmental quality, in order to define a region specification and variation of the integrity of environmental factors.

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Analysis by means of variable normalization for a model of seasonal water environmental planning. (2016). Obras Y Proyectos, 20, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-28132016000200006