Critical regions: A model-based estimation of world water resources sensitive to global changes

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 352-362

  Alcamo, Joseph ^a   Henrichs, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical regions; Global change; Global water model; Hot spot areas; Water scarcity; Water stress

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; MODEL; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; VULNERABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 0036965031     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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