Research on Water Resource Guarantee for Regional Industrialization and Urbanization

Author: Bai Yongping
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is suitable for cadres in various government departments such as decision-making and management, policy research, development planning, water conservancy, urban construction, and environmental protection at all levels. It can also serve as a teaching material for postgraduate students in universities and research institutions majoring in geography, national land planning, water resources planning, urban and regional planning, ecological and environmental planning, and related fields. This book is a specialized monograph on water resource security issues in the process of industrialization and urbanization. It first explores the fundamental principles of the relationship between water resources and regional economic development, clarifying their mutual interactions, and reveals the general patterns of water resources' influence on industrial and spatial structure evolution. It also discusses the general patterns of water price adjustments under the market economy conditions and their significance in achieving water demand control and supply allocation. Then, taking the North China region as an example, it conducts an in-depth analysis through extensive statistical data, exploring the trends of water structure changes and spatial patterns of water use during regional industrialization and urbanization. It comprehensively evaluates the regional economic sustainability of water use models for water resources sustainable utilization and proposes reference-worthy policy recommendations.