Electricity for groundwater use: Constraints and opportunities for adaptive response to climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Scott, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change; groundwater; Mexico; policy; virtual water; water energy nexus

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; IRRIGATION; PUBLIC POLICY; PUMPS; WATER SUPPLY;

ADAPTATION; ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION; ELECTRICITY CONSERVATION; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; ME-XICO; VIRTUAL WATER; WATER-ENERGY NEXUS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; IRRIGATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SURFACE WATER; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER USE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84884284947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035005     Document Type: Article

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