Energetics;Systems Analysis With Application to Water Resources Planning and Decision-Making.

摘要

Report evaluates energetics as a possible analytical tool for use in water resource planning and decision-making. Basic scientific concepts which comprise the comprehensive subject of energetics are explained through the use of easily understood correlaries. The author examines the potentials which these concepts have in water resources work as well as the limitations which curtail their present useability and acceptance. He concludes that energetics has promise as an analytical tool and recommends further development and testing in actual water resource planning situations. (Author)