Supplying safe water in Bangladesh: A policy model based on multi-objective mixed integer programming

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-75

  Akmam, Wardatul ^a   Higano, Yoshiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Drinking water; Multi objective mixed integer programming; Pareto optimisation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; POLICY STRATEGY; SAFETY; SIMULATION; TRADE-OFF; WATER PLANNING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33947673383     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2007.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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