Accommodating the rainy season in third world location-allocation applications

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-137

  Oppong, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFRASTRUCTURAL PLANNING; LOCATION-ALLOCATION MODEL; MODELLING APPROACH; RAINY SEASON; SPATIAL PLANNING;

EID: 0030438487     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-0121(96)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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