Water resources management under future development and climate change impacts in the upper Srepok river basin, central highlands of Vietnam

Water Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 725-745

  Van Ty, Tran ^a   Sunada, Kengo ^b   Ichikawa, Yutaka ^b  

^a CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allocation; Deficits; Hydropower plant; Srepok river; Supply priority; Water balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870529400     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2012.095     Document Type: Article

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