Navigating financial and supply reliability tradeoffs in regional drought management portfolios

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4906-4923

  Zeff, Harrison B ^a   Kasprzyk, Joseph R ^b   Herman, Jonathan D ^c   Reed, Patrick M ^c   Characklis, Gregory W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

drought management; optimization; portfolio; risk management

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FINANCE; OPTIMIZATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITIES; CONSERVATION MEASURES; DROUGHT MANAGEMENT; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; PORTFOLIO; SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84902706877     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015126     Document Type: Article

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