Deforestation-induced costs on the drinking water supplies of the Mumbai metropolitan, India

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-83

  Singh, Sunita ^a   Mishra, Arabinda ^a  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Change in productivity method; Forest; Treatment cost; Turbidity; Water quality; Water yield

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATURAL CAPITAL; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER YIELD;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 84905180154     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.020     Document Type: Article

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