Multicriteria decision-making for efficient water and land resources allocation in irrigated agriculture

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 329-343

  Latinopoulos, Dionysis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Irrigation water pricing; Multi objective goal programming; Multicriteria decision making; Optimal resource allocation; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEMAND ELASTICITY; IRRIGATION; PRICING POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL AREA; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 61449171940     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-007-9115-2     Document Type: Article

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