Combined Impacts of Medium Term Socio-Economic Changes and Climate Change on Water Resources in a Managed Mediterranean Catchment

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1538-1567

  Stefanova, Anastassi ^a   Hesse, Cornelia ^a   Krysanova, Valentina ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Eco hydrological modelling; Land use change; Management change; Mar Menor; Socio economic changes; Soil and Water Integrated Model (SWIM)

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; LAND USE;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ECO-HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTEGRATED MODELING; LANDUSE CHANGE; MAR MENOR; MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE; SOIL AND WATER; SOIL AND WATER INTEGRATED MODEL; WATERS RESOURCES;

RUNOFF;

EID: 84939199269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7041538     Document Type: Article

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