Assessing groundwater policy with coupled economic-groundwater hydrologic modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2257-2275

  Mulligan, Kevin B ^a   Brown, Casey ^a   Yang, Yi Chen E ^a   Ahlfeld, David P ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based modeling; MODFLOW; optimal control; optimization; quota; Republican River; tax

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ECONOMIC DECISION MODEL; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; MODFLOW; OPTIMAL CONTROL MODEL; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; QUOTA; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; TAX SYSTEM; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

GREAT PLAINS; OGALLALA AQUIFER; REPUBLICAN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895854872     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013666     Document Type: Article

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