Uncertainty and risk analysis in hydrological models for landuse management

Proceedings of ACCURACY 2006 - 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 740-749

  Lowell, Kim E ^a,b   Benke, Kurt K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epistemic uncertainty; Hydrology; Linguistic uncertainty; Models; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HYDROLOGY; MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; LIMITED INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC UNCERTAINTY; MAKING DECISION; RESEARCH DOMAINS; UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 38049034303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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