Water Resource Carrying Capacity and Ecological Water Demand: Theory and Application

Author: Zhang Li
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book starts from the concept of sustainable development, elaborating on the definition, characteristics, connotations, influencing factors, and relationship between water resource carrying capacity and sustainable development. It investigates the indicators for sustainable carrying capacity of water resources. Based on the characteristics of river basins, it establishes a basic water resource river basin sustainable development evaluation index system and proposes methods for sustainable development evaluation and discrimination. To ensure water resource carrying capacity research is conducted under good ecological conditions, it builds a skewed unimodal log-normal distribution model between the growth status of typical natural plants in arid regions and the main environmental factors based on ecological suitability theory. Based on this relational model, it proposes a calculation method for ecological water demand of natural vegetation in arid regions. It conducts empirical research on ecological water demand and water resource carrying capacity in the Lianyungang River Basin. This book is a specialized study on water resource carrying capacity and ecological water demand, with strong scientific and knowledge-based content, suitable for research institutions, universities, and professionals in hydrology, water resources, resources, and environmental fields for use and reference.