An approach to assessing socioeconomic implications of water management alternatives

Water Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-147

  Prasad, Krishna C ^a   Strzepek, Kenneth M ^b   Van Koppen, Barbara ^c  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Integrated river basin management; Multi criteria decision analysis; Olifants river basin; Stakeholders' participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949284740     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2007.005     Document Type: Article

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