Yellow river basin: Living with scarcity

Water International

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 681-701

  Ringler, Claudia ^a   Cai, Ximing ^b   Wang, Jinxia ^c   Ahmed, Akhter ^a   Xue, Yunpeng ^d   Xu, Zongxue ^e   Yang, Ethan ^b   Jianshi, Zhao ^f   Zhu, Tingju ^a   Cheng, Lei ^e   Yongfeng, Fu ^d   Xinfeng, Fu ^d   Xiaowei, Gu ^c   You, Liangzhi ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d YELLOW RIVER INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Water scarcity; Water trading; Yellow River basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149403789     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2010.509857     Document Type: Article

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