Assessing freshwater provision and consumption in the alpine space applying the ecosystem service concept

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2019, Pages

  Meisch, Claude ^a   Schirpke, Uta ^a   Huber, Lisa ^a   Rüdisser, Johannes ^a   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demographic change; Ecosystem services; InVEST; Scenario analysis; Spatial modelling; Water abstraction; Water budget; Water yield

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MODELING; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER YIELD;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 85062150383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su11041131     Document Type: Article

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