Fair water resources allocation with application to the South Saskatchewan River Basin

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-60

  Hipel, Keith W ^a   Fang, Liping ^b   Wang, Lizhong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION PROBLEMS; DECISION MAKING METHODOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; WATER ALLOCATION MODELS; WATER ALLOCATIONS; WATER RESOURCES ALLOCATIONS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84880941070     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07011784.2013.773767     Document Type: Article

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