Land-use, temperature, and single-family residential water use patterns in Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona

Applied Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 142-151

  Breyer, Betsy ^a   Chang, Heejun ^a   Parandvash, G Hossein ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b City of Portland   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Land use; Localized descriptive statistics; Spatial analysis; Urban water demand

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; GIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; WATER DEMAND; WATER PLANNING; WATER USE;

ARIZONA; OREGON; PHOENIX; PORTLAND [OREGON]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864026308     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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