Selecting Portfolios of Water Supply and Demand Management Strategies Under Uncertainty-Contrasting Economic Optimisation and 'Robust Decision Making' Approaches

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1123-1148

  Matrosov, Evgenii S ^a   Padula, Silvia ^a   Harou, Julien J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic optimisation; Infrastructure planning; Robust Decision Making (RDM); Uncertainty; Water resources planning

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ECONOMIC OPTIMISATION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; ROBUST DECISIONS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84873746718     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0118-x     Document Type: Article

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