Development of an Agent Based coupled economic and hydrological model of the Deep Creek watershed in British Columbia, Canada

Modelling for Environment's Sake: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, iEMSs 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1638-1648

  Janmaat, John ^a   Anputhas, Markandu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent Based modeling; Climate change impact; REPAST; Simulation; Water demand

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; REPAST; SIMULATION; WATER DEMAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84858683990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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