The Development of Water Allocation Management in The Yellow River Basin

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3395-3414

  Xia, Chun ^a   Pahl Wostl, Claudia ^b  

^a Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epistemic communities; Informal learning; Regime transition; Water allocation; Yellow River Basin

Indexed keywords

CHINESE GOVERNMENT; INFORMAL LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MULTIPLE STREAMS; RECONFIGURATION PROCESS; REGIME TRANSITION; SUPPLY AND DEMAND; WATER ALLOCATIONS; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ECONOMICS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BASIN MANAGEMENT; LEARNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84865472710     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0078-1     Document Type: Article

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