The costs of uncoordinated infrastructure management in multi-reservoir river basins

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Jeuland, Marc ^a,b   Baker, Justin ^c   Bartlett, Ryan ^d   Lacombe, Guillaume ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Laos)

Author keywords

cooperation; hydroeconomic models; hydropower; irrigation; Mekong; reservoir coordination; water resources planning and management

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; HYDROPOWER; INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENTS; MEKONG; MULTI RESERVOIR; RIVER BASINS; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENTS;

IRRIGATION;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; MULTIRESERVOIR SYSTEM; PROFITABILITY; RIVER BASIN; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

LAOS; MEKONG BASIN; NAM NGUM RESERVOIR;

EID: 84907896838     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/105006     Document Type: Article

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