Global water resources modeling with an integrated model of the social-economic-environmental system

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 684-700

  Davies, Evan G R ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global change; Integrated assessment; Sustainability; System dynamics; Water resources

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL PRODUCTS; CARBON CYCLES; DYNAMIC REPRESENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; INTEGRATED MODELS; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SUSTAINABILITY; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; WATER QUANTITIES; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS; WATER SCARCITY; WATER STRESS; WATER SYSTEM; WATER USE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; INTEGRATION; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; SYSTEM THEORY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER RESOURCES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79955976130     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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