Supply-Demand Risk and Resilience Assessment for Household Rainwater Harvesting in Melbourne, Australia

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 4381-4396

  Wang, Chi Hsiang ^a   Blackmore, Jane M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demand; Resilience; Risk assessment; Simulation; Water resources

Indexed keywords

COMMAND-AND-CONTROL; DEMAND; ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE; HARVESTING SYSTEM; MELBOURNE; MELBOURNE , AUSTRALIA; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM; REGIONAL SCALE; RESILIENCE; SIMULATION; SUPPLY-DEMAND; SUPPLY-DEMAND RELATION; SYSTEM SELECTION; TANK CAPACITY; TANK SYSTEM;

MANAGERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER RESOURCES;

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMAND ANALYSIS; HARVESTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84868193860     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0150-x     Document Type: Article

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