Assessing climate change impacts on water resources and Colorado agriculture using an equilibrium displacement mathematical programming model

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1745-1770

  Fathelrahman, Eihab ^a   Davies, Amalia ^b   Davies, Stephen ^b   Pritchett, James ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)   (Pakistan)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado equilibrium displacement positive mathematical programming model (Colorado EDMP); Food and energy; Small open economy; Water demand

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS; POSITIVE MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SMALL OPEN ECONOMY; WATER DEMAND;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84902675144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6061745     Document Type: Article

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