A model of the socio-hydrologic dynamics in a semiarid catchment: Isolating feedbacks in the coupled human-hydrology system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6442-6471

  Elshafei, Y ^a   Coletti, J Z ^a   Sivapalan, M ^b,c   Hipsey, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

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

Author keywords

catchment systems model; coupled system feedbacks; land use change; socio hydrology; water resources management

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CATCHMENTS; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES;

CATCHMENT SYSTEM; COUPLED SYSTEMS; FRESHWATER MANAGEMENTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; UNDERLYING COMPONENTS; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

FEEDBACK;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA; TOOLIBIN LAKE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84941994937     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017048     Document Type: Article

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