Measuring the long-term regional benefits of salinity reduction

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-93

  Characklis, Gregory W ^a   Griffin, Ronald C ^b   Bedient, Philip B ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits; Regional water resource modeling; Salinity; Water quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 19044373081     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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