Multiattribute optimization of restoration options: Designing incentives for watershed management

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Randhir, Timothy O ^a   Deborah M Shriver, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION POLICIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRIBUTES; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES; MULTI ATTRIBUTES; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; OBJECTIVE METHODS; OPTIMAL RESTORATIONS; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORKS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; WATERSHED MANAGEMENTS; WATERSHED RESTORATIONS; WATERSHED SCALE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDFORMS; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RESTORATION;

DESIGN; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; OPTIMIZATION; URBANIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 65349162216     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007169     Document Type: Article

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