Discussion of the paper "Cost effective policies for alternative distributions of stochastic water pollution" by Gren, Destouni and Tempone

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 383-388

  Kampas, Athanasios ^a,c   Adamidis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Log normal data; Probabilistic programming; Stochastic water pollution

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

COASTAL WATERS; COST EFFECTIVE; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DATA; PAPER COSTS; PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC WATER POLLUTION; STOCHASTICS; WATERS MANAGEMENTS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

STOCHASTICITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POLICY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 14544296550     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.05.012     Document Type: Note

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