Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6312-6317

  McDonald, Robert I ^a   Green, Pamela ^b   Balk, Deborah ^c   Fekete, Balazs M ^b   Revenga, Carmen ^a   Todd, Megan ^c   Montgomery, Mark ^d  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation model; Global Rural Urban Mapping Program; Global warming; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER;

CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FRESHWATER AVAILABILITY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER FISH; HUMAN; HYDROLOGY; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; RIVER BASIN; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79954994771     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011615108     Document Type: Article

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