Impacts of climate change on irrigated agriculture in the Maipo basin, Chile: Reliability of water rights and changes in the demand for irrigation

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 421-430

  Meza, Francisco J ^a   Wilks, Daniel S ^b   Gurovich, Luis ^a   Bambach, Nicolás ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Chile; Climate change; Irrigation; Water allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; IRRIGATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CHILE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; DISAGGREGATION TECHNIQUES; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR; WATER ALLOCATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; IRRIGATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIMULATION; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CHILE; MAIPO BASIN;

EID: 84862079417     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000216     Document Type: Article

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