Future availability of water in Egypt: The interaction of global, regional, and basin scale driving forces in the Nile Basin

AMBIO

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 336-342

  Conway, Declan ^a   Krol, Maarten ^b,c   Alcamo, Joe ^b,d,e   Hulme, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e University of Kassel ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EGYPT, NILE BASIN;

EID: 0029669688     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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27. Much of the Nile work was originally carried out whilst D Conway was funded under the Stockhohn Environment Institute Ph.D. programme. IMAGE 2.0 has been funded by the Dutch Ministry of the Environment. the Dutch National Research Program on Air Pollution and Climate Change, and the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM).
28. First submitted 10 February 1995 Accepted for publication after revision 17 August 1995.