DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-1035-2015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84923879937
论文题名: A conceptual socio-hydrological model of the co-evolution of humans and water: Case study of the Tarim River basin, western China
作者: Liu D ; , Tian F ; , Lin M ; , Sivapalan M
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2015
卷: 19, 期: 2 起始页码: 1035
结束页码: 1054
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Climate models
; Ecology
; Feedback
; Hydrology
; Population statistics
; Rivers
; Water management
; Watersheds
; Constitutive relations
; Evolutionary equation
; Feedback mechanisms
; Hydrological modeling
; Hydrological system
; Self organizations
; Skewed distribution
; Water resources management
; Water resources
; coevolution
; colonization
; community development
; human settlement
; hydrological modeling
; river basin
; socioeconomic conditions
; water budget
; China
; China
; Tarim River
; Xinjiang Uygur
英文摘要: The complex interactions and feedbacks between humans and water are critically important issues but remain poorly understood in the newly proposed discipline of socio-hydrology (Sivapalan et al., 2012). An exploratory model with the appropriate level of simplification can be valuable for improving our understanding of the co-evolution and self-organization of socio-hydrological systems driven by interactions and feedbacks operating at different scales. In this study, a simplified conceptual socio-hydrological model based on logistic growth curves is developed for the Tarim River basin in western China and is used to illustrate the explanatory power of such a co-evolutionary model. The study area is the main stream of the Tarim River, which is divided into two modeling units. The socio-hydrological system is composed of four sub-systems, i.e., the hydrological, ecological, economic, and social sub-systems. In each modeling unit, the hydrological equation focusing on water balance is coupled to the other three evolutionary equations to represent the dynamics of the social sub-system (denoted by population), the economic sub-system (denoted by irrigated crop area ratio), and the ecological sub-system (denoted by natural vegetation cover), each of which is expressed in terms of a logistic growth curve. Four feedback loops are identified to represent the complex interactions among different sub-systems and different spatial units, of which two are inner loops occurring within each separate unit and the other two are outer loops linking the two modeling units. The feedback mechanisms are incorporated into the constitutive relations for model parameters, i.e., the colonization and mortality rates in the logistic growth curves that are jointly determined by the state variables of all sub-systems. The co-evolution of the Tarim socio-hydrological system is then analyzed with this conceptual model to gain insights into the overall system dynamics and its sensitivity to the external drivers and internal system variables. The results show a costly pendulum swing between a balanced distribution of socio-economic and natural ecologic resources among the upper and lower reaches and a highly skewed distribution towards the upper reach. This evolution is principally driven by the attitudinal changes occurring within water resources management policies that reflect the evolving community awareness of society to concerns regarding the ecology and environment. © Author(s) 2015. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/78594
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作者单位: State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-hydraulic Engineering in Arid Area, School of Water Resources and Hydropower, Xi'An University of Technology, Xi'an, China; Department of Hydraulic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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Liu D,, Tian F,, Lin M,et al. A conceptual socio-hydrological model of the co-evolution of humans and water: Case study of the Tarim River basin, western China[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2015-01-01,19(2)