The significance and impacts of large investments over the determination of irrigated agricultural land use: The case of the Euphrates & Tigris River Basin

Land Use Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 514-525

  Kucukmehmetoglu, Mehmet ^a   Geymen, Abdurrahman ^b  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Basin Management; Irrigation; Land Use; Mixed Integer Programming; The Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers; Trans boundary Water Resources

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BASIN MANAGEMENT; DROUGHT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND USE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL PLANNING; IRRIGATION; RIVER BASIN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ATATURK DAM LAKE; ELAZIG [TURKEY]; EUPHRATES BASIN; IRAQ; KEBAN; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TIGRIS BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 84907596209     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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