Managing water in complex systems: An integrated water resources model for Saskatchewan, Canada

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-26

  Hassanzadeh, Elmira ^a,b   Elshorbagy, Amin ^a,b   Wheater, Howard ^a,b,c   Gober, Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c University of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economic evaluation; Integrated water resource management; Irrigation; Scenarios; SWAMP1.0; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; SYSTEM THEORY; WATER SUPPLY;

ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SCENARIOS; SWAMP1.0; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84899824794     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.015     Document Type: Article

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