Fit for purpose? Building and evaluating a fast, integrated model for exploring water policy pathways

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-120

  Haasnoot, M ^a,b,c   van Deursen, W P A ^d   Guillaume, J H A ^e   Kwakkel, J H ^f   van Beek, E ^a,b   Middelkoop, H ^c  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Carthago Consultancy   (Netherlands)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Integrated assessment; Metamodel; Rhine; Uncertainty; Water management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; META MODEL; RHINE; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION THEORY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATE ROLE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE DELTA;

EID: 84903590234     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.020     Document Type: Article

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