DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-5025-2014
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84918504016
论文题名: A virtual water network of the Roman world
作者: Dermody B ; J ; , Van Beek R ; P ; H ; , Meeks E ; , Klein Goldewijk K ; , Scheidel W ; , Van Der Velde Y ; , Bierkens M ; F ; P ; , Wassen M ; J ; , Dekker S ; C
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2014
卷: 18, 期: 12 起始页码: 5025
结束页码: 5040
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Climatology
; Commerce
; Costs
; Irrigation
; Resource allocation
; Water management
; Climate variability
; Distance-based
; Interannual climate variability
; Population pressure
; Pre-industrial
; Virtual water
; Virtual water trade
; Waterresource management
; Cost benefit analysis
; climate variation
; irrigation
; population pressure
; urbanization
; water management
; water resource
英文摘要: The Romans were perhaps the most impressive exponents of water resource management in preindustrial times with irrigation and virtual water trade facilitating unprecedented urbanization and socioeconomic stability for hundreds of years in a region of highly variable climate. To understand Roman water resource management in response to urbanization and climate variability, a Virtual Water Network of the Roman World was developed. Using this network we find that irrigation and virtual water trade increased Roman resilience to interannual climate variability. However, urbanization arising from virtual water trade likely pushed the Empire closer to the boundary of its water resources, led to an increase in import costs, and eroded its resilience to climate variability in the long term. In addition to improving our understanding of Roman water resource management, our cost-distance-based analysis illuminates how increases in import costs arising from climatic and population pressures are likely to be distributed in the future global virtual water network. © Author(s) 2014. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/78047
Appears in Collections: 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Utrecht University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands; Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands; Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, CA, United States; Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, De Bilt, Netherlands; Stanford University, Department of Classics, Palo Alto, CA, United States; Wageningen University, Department of soil, geography and landscape, Wageningen, Netherlands
Recommended Citation:
Dermody B,J,, Van Beek R,et al. A virtual water network of the Roman world[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2014-01-01,18(12)