Valuing certainty in a consensus-based water allocation mechanism

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Pande, Saket ^a,b   McKee, Mac ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION; WATER POLICY; WATER USERS;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VALUATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947679871     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003890     Document Type: Article

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