Water and Pollution Discharge Permit Allocation to Agricultural Zones: Application of Game Theory and Min-Max Regret Analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4241-4257

  Poorsepahy Samian, Hamed ^a   Kerachian, Reza ^a   Nikoo, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Game theory; Min Max regret analysis; Shared rivers; The Karoon Dez river system; Water allocation; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; CROP WATER PRODUCTION FUNCTION; KAROON-DEZ RIVER SYSTEMS; MIN-MAX REGRET ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT DISCHARGES; POLLUTION DISCHARGES; SHARED RIVERS; WATER ALLOCATIONS;

GAME THEORY;

GAME THEORY; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER SYSTEM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

IRAN;

EID: 84867558715     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0142-x     Document Type: Article

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