Water supply, demand, and quality indicators for assessing the spatial distribution of water resource vulnerability in the Columbia river basin

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 339-356

  Chang, Heejun ^a   Jung, Il Won ^a   Strecker, Angela ^a   Wise, Daniel ^b   Lafrenz, Martin ^a   Shandas, Vivek ^a   Moradkhani, Hamid ^c   Yeakley, Alan ^a   Pan, Yangdong ^a   Bean, Robert ^a   Johnson, Gunnar ^a   Psaris, Mike ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; integrated water resource management; multi dimensional analysis; vulnerability; water demand; water quality; water supply; water sustainability

Indexed keywords

GIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

COLUMBIA BASIN; OREGON; SNAKE BASIN; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE BASIN;

EID: 84883547163     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2013.777896     Document Type: Article

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