A water resources planning tool for the Jordan River basin

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 718-736

  Hoff, Holger ^a   Bonzi, Christopher ^a   Joyce, Brian ^a   Tielbörger, Katja ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Jordan River; Scenario development; Water database; Water management

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS; RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; JORDAN RIVER; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE; TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84981314139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w3030718     Document Type: Article

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