[1]DANG Lijuan,XU Yong.Review of Research Progress in Carrying Capacity of Water Resources[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2015,22(03):341-348.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
22
Number of periods:
2015 03
Page number:
341-348
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Public date:
2015-06-28
- Title:
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Review of Research Progress in Carrying Capacity of Water Resources
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DANG Lijuan1,2, XU Yong1
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1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Keywords:
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water resources; carrying capacity; evaluation indicators; calculation method; reviews
- CLC:
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TV213
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- Abstract:
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Water resources is one of the most critical factors of resources and environment. The review of research on water resources carrying capacity including research history, method and application is not only beneficial to implement of monitoring and forecasting the national resources and environmental carrying capacity, but also valuable to ecological civilization construction. By analyzing the feature and phases division of domestic and international research history on carrying capacity of water resources we reviewed and summarized the definition, indicator systems and calculation methods of water resources carrying capacity. This research suggested that: (1) maximum water resources development scale, maximum population scale and sustainable economic scale were emphasized in previous researches; (2) building up the tight coupling between water resources system and carrier of water resources carrying capacity was more critical than list quantity of indicators, the indicators connecting the water resources system and the structure, scale and tendency of population, economic and ecological system could describe the feature and content of carrying capacity in a clear way; (3) the representative method could be categorized into assessment method and forecast method, which is specific to maximum water resources development scale and social-economic supporting scale. Although these researches have achieved great advances and made substantial progress, how to qualify the sustainable development in this field becomes difficulty to determine the social-economic scale and capability of water resources development. The way of taking minimum water utilization units as thread, by connecting social, economic, ecological and environment system, constructing effective index system to calculate the potential and scale for regional development, could be the reference and idea for the future researches.