Informing future investment decisions for water and sanitation projects in the Asia Pacific by integrating statistical and qualitative information

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2856-2862

  Alexander, Kim S ^a   Moglia, Magnus ^a   Burn, Stewart ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessments of water needs; Collective learning; Indicator methodology; Weighting

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; LOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

DATA AND INFORMATION; DELIBERATIVE PROCESS; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WATER AND SANITATION PROJECTS; WATER POVERTY INDICES;

SANITATION;

EID: 85086247090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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