Study on sustainable water use of the Haihe River Basin using ecological network analysis |
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Authors: | Yuan Li and Bin Chen |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2871, 18 Shuangqing Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China;(2) Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydro-Power Research, Yuyuantan Science and Technology Garden, Haidian District, Beijing, 100038, China; |
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Abstract: | Sustainable water use of the Haihe River Basin is studied by using the ecological network analysis (ENA) approach. Two related
aspects including socioeconomic and environmental water uses sustainability and network organization inherent in system structures
are analyzed. For the study of sustainable water use from each single aspect including water use intensity, water use pressure,
and environmental protection, a series of new indicators termed as total system throughput water use intensity (TSTUI), total
system throughput pressure (TSTP), and environmental flow indicator (EFI) are set up by incorporating parameters of GDP, population,
and environmental flow. Based on these three indices, a new integrated index, intensity-pressure-environment (IPE) is established
for synthesized measure of sustainable socioeconomic and environmental water uses. The indices of ascendency and overhead
are applied for analyzing and characterizing water use network organization. The four subbasins of the Haihe River during
1999–2002 and 2005–2007 are studied. The results show that (i) the water use intensity in subbasin II is the best, while that
in subbasins I and III are the worst; (ii) subbasin II and subbasins I and III suffer the highest and lowest water use pressure,
respectively; (iii) the environmental flow situations in subbasins II and III are the worst and that of subbasin I is the
best; (iv) as for the integrated socioeconomic and environmental water uses sustainability, subbasin III is the best, and
subbasins I and IV are the worst; (v) the organization level of subbasin I is better than the others’, in which that of subbasin
IV is the worst. It can be concluded that the application of ENA in sustainable water use study can provide new angles for
water resources management to address the challenges of assessing and optimizing options to obtain more sustainable water
use. |
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