Exploring pathways for sustainable water management in river deltas in a changing environment

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 795-819

  Haasnoot, Marjolijn ^a,b,c   Middelkoop, Hans ^b   Offermans, Astrid ^d   van Beek, Eelco ^a,c   van Deursen, Willem P A ^e  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Carthago Consultancy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DYNAMIC ASPECTS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; META MODEL; NATURAL VARIABILITY; POLICY MAKERS; POLICY OPTIONS; RIVER DELTAS; ROAD-MAPS; SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SYSTEM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERWORKS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTATION; DECISION MAKING; DELTA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84868681090     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0444-2     Document Type: Article

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