A decision-support tool for water allocation in the Volta Basin

Water International

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-87

  de Condappa, Devaraj ^a   Chaponnière, Anne ^b   Lemoalle, Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydropower; Modelling; Small reservoirs; Transboundary water management; Volta Basin; Water allocation; WEAP

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249088510     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060802677861     Document Type: Article

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