Scenarios for a more sustainable water management in the Dead Sea basin

NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 297-321

  Orthofer, Rudolf ^a   Gebetsroither, Ernst ^a   Lehrer, David ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b ARAVA INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Jordan River; Population; Scenario; System dynamic modeling; Water management; Water use

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249066401     PISSN: 18714668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5986-5_14     Document Type: Review

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