Socio-Economic Impact of Evaporation Losses from Reservoirs Under Past, Current and Future Water Availability Scenarios in the Semi-Arid Segura Basin

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1411-1426

  Maestre Valero, J F ^a   Martinez Granados D ^a   Martinez Alvarez V ^a   Calatrava, J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dams; Value of water; Water economics; Water management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DAMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; WATER RESOURCES AVAILABILITY; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CATCHMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

SEGURA BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84874280293     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0245-4     Document Type: Article

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