Modelling everything everywhere: A new approach to decision-making for water management under uncertainty

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 124-132

  Beven, Keith J ^a,b,c   Alcock, Ruth E ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchments; Ecohydrology; Guidelines; Models; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862686057     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02592.x     Document Type: Article

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