Global change impacts on the Upper Danube Catchment (Central Europe): a study of participatory modeling

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1595-1611

  Barthel, Roland ^a   Seidl, Roman ^b   Nickel, Darla ^c   Büttner, Hannah ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Wirtschaft und Finanzen am Deutschen Institut für Urbanistik gGmbH in Berlin   (Germany)

^d Leiter Bereichs Umwelt Planung/Techn   (Germany)

^e Dr Hannah Büttner: Integrative Dialogue ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

DANUBIA; Decision support; Global change; GLOWA Danube; Integrated modeling; Participatory modeling; Regional scale; Upper Danube Catchment; Water resources; Water supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949683282     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0895-x     Document Type: Article

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