An integrated approach to linking economic valuation and catchment modelling

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-102

  Kragt, M E ^a,b   Newham, L T H ^a   Bennett, J ^b   Jakeman, A J ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Catchment scale modelling; Choice experiments; Environmental values; Integrated water resources management; Knowledge integration; Model development

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT SCALE MODELLING; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; MODEL DEVELOPMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; RUNOFF; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VALUE ENGINEERING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CATCHMENTS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOPHYSICS; CATCHMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VALUATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 77957232347     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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