Comprehensive assessment of regional water usage efficiency control based on game theory weight and a matter-element model

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a,b,c   Wang, Gaoxu ^b,c   Wu, Yongxiang ^b,c   Xu, Yi ^b,c   Gao, Hong ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Hydrology Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Evaluation index system; Extension engineering; Game theory; Matter element model; Water usage efficiency control

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; WATER RESOURCES;

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; EFFICIENCY CONTROL; EVALUATION INDEX SYSTEM; EXTENSION EVALUATIONS; MATTER-ELEMENT MODEL; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

GAME THEORY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GAME THEORY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INDEX METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA; JIANGXI;

EID: 85013762869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9020113     Document Type: Article

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