Reconciling hydropower and environmental water uses in the leishui river basin

River Research and Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 181-192

  Ai, X S ^a,b   Sandoval Solis, S ^a   Dahlke, H E ^a   Lane, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dongjiang reservoir; Environmental flows; Hydropower; Integrated water resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922718741     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.2728     Document Type: Article

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