Implications of climate change for water resources development in the Ganges basin

Water Policy

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 26-50

  Jeuland, Marc ^a   Harshadeep, Nagaraja ^b   Escurra, Jorge ^b   Blackmore, Don ^c   Sadoff, Claudia ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c Independent Researcher   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Economic optimization; Ganges basin; Hydrological simulation; Water resources development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885396399     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2013.107     Document Type: Article

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