Optimization for urban watershed management: Stormwater runoff and nonpoint pollution control

Water Resources Systems Analysis through Case Studies: Data and Models for Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 85-101

  McGarity, Arthur ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; LAND USE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING FORMULATION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NONPOINT POLLUTIONS; SPATIAL DATABASES AND GIS; SPREADSHEET OPTIMIZATIONS; STORM-WATER MANAGEMENTS; URBAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT;

WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84960918039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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