A biophysical and economic model of agriculture and water in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 98-106

  Ejaz Qureshi, M ^a,c   Whitten, Stuart M ^a   Mainuddin, Mohammed ^a   Marvanek, Steve ^a   Elmahdi, Amgad ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic models; Mathematical; Optimisation; PMP; Water policy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL; OPTIMISATIONS; PMP; WATER POLICIES;

AGRICULTURE; BIOPHYSICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIOPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; RAINFALL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84871648120     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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