Water security in the Canadian Prairies: Science and management challenges

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2002, 2013, Pages

  Wheater, Howard ^a   Gober, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Decision making under uncertainty; Environmental change; Saskatchewan river basin; Social learning; Water security

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES; WATERSHEDS;

ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; RIVER BASINS; SOCIAL LEARNING; WATER SECURITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885006223     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0409     Document Type: Article

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