Raising the Dead without a Red Sea-Dead Sea project? Hydro-economics and governance

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1243-1255

  Rosenberg, D E ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD SEA; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; JORDAN RIVER; RED SEA; RETURN WATER; SALE PRICE; WASTEWATER REUSE; WATER SCARCITY; WATER SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ECONOMICS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RESTORATION; SEA LEVEL; WASTEWATER;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; DESALINATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RESOURCE USE; RIVER FLOW; SEA LEVEL; SINKHOLE;

DEAD SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; JORDAN RIVER; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 79954996220     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1243-2011     Document Type: Article

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