Feedback mechanisms between water availability and water use in a semi-arid river basin: A spatially explicit multi-agent simulation approach

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-443

  van Oel, Pieter R ^a   Krol, Maarten S ^a   Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a   Taddei, Renzo R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Irrigation; Multi agent simulation; River basin; Semi arid; Water availability

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; DRY SEASONS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; MODEL VALIDITY; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; RIVER BASINS; SEMI ARID; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PLANNING; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS; WATER USE; WET SEASON;

AVAILABILITY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DROUGHT; IRRIGATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RIVERS; SIMULATORS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

DROUGHT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL PLANNING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

BRAZIL; JAGUARIUNA; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 72249116924     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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