Water resources sustainability: Development of a multiobjective optimization model

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Rothman, Daniel W ^a   Mays, Larry W ^b  

^a Arizona State Univ ^*  (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of exhaustible resources; Genetic algorithms; Groundwater valuation; Multiobjective optimization; Optimization; Water resources sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE VALUATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTIVE MANAGEMENT AREAS (AMA); ARIZONA; COST MINIMIZATION; EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION MODELS; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; VALUE OF GROUNDWATERS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911197202     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: 19435452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000425.     Document Type: Article

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