Socio-hydrologic modeling to understand and mediate the competition for water between agriculture development and environmental health: Murrumbidgee River basin, Australia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4239-4259

  Van Emmerik, T H M ^a   Li, Z ^b   Sivapalan, M ^b,c   Pande, S ^a   Kandasamy, J ^d   Savenije, H H G ^a   Chanan, A ^e   Vigneswaran, S ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e New South Wales Office of Water   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PENDULUMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEM THEORY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABILITY; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORKS; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; BASIN MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER BASIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; MURRUMBIDGEE BASIN; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84908420235     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-4239-2014     Document Type: Article

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