Climate change impacts on water resources planning and management: Scientific challenges and beyond

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 3969-3975

  Sivakumar, B ^a,b   Sharma, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Impact assessment; Science; Society; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION; FLOODS; POTABLE WATER; RIVER POLLUTION; SEA LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85086266236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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