Nonlinear Optimisation Using Production Functions to Estimate Economic Benefit of Conjunctive Water Use for Multicrop Production

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2153-2170

  An Vo, D A ^a   Mushtaq, S ^b   Nguyen Ky, T ^a   Bundschuh, J ^c   Tran Cong, T ^a   Maraseni, T N ^b   Reardon Smith, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural production and profit functions; Conjunctive water use models; Groundwater; Optimal multicrop production; Sequentially quadratic programming (SQP) technique; Surface water

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COSTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY; PUMPS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

COLEAMBALLY IRRIGATION AREAS; CONJUNCTIVE WATER USE; ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMISATION; PROFIT FUNCTION; SEQUENTIALLY QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING (SQP) TECHNIQUE; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 84940007219     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-0933-y     Document Type: Article

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