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Adapting Water Scarcity for River Basin: Optimization of Land Uses

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River Basin Management

Part of the book series: Ecohydrology ((ECOH))

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Water scarcity is a hot issue in river basin management, especially in ecologically fragile areas with arid climate, such as the Heihe River Basin (HRB) in northwestern China, where water availability is at the core of sustainable socioeconomic development and ecological conservation and the effects of land use changes on the hydrological process are crucial to rational allocation of water resources. In this chapter, first, we identified that the severity of water scarcity problems can be associated with imbalance between water supply and demand, irrational water consumption structure and low water efficiency, deficient systems and institutions for water management, as well as unreasonable water allocation scheme. Further, we investigated the hydrological responses to land use changes in the upper and middle reaches of the HRB based on scenario analysis. In one case, the results indicated that the forest land has “sponge” effects on the water resource in the upper reach of the HRB; in the other case for the upper and middle reaches, the results showed that the forest land and grassland will expand with increase in water utilization ratio, and further the quick-response surface runoff would decrease significantly due to forest and grassland expansion, which may cause an overall decreasing trend of the water yield. This indicated that water resources should be reasonably allocated for different land use demand, which is critical for sustainable development. The results of this chapter will be informative to decision-makers for sustainable water resource and land management.

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  1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng & Aisha Arowolo

  2. Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng & Aisha Arowolo

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng & Aisha Arowolo

  4. School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

    Qunou Jiang

  5. State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Haiming Yan

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    Xiangzheng Deng

  2. Department of Economics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    John Gibson

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Li, Z., Deng, X., Arowolo, A., Jiang, Q., Yan, H. (2018). Adapting Water Scarcity for River Basin: Optimization of Land Uses. In: Deng, X., Gibson, J. (eds) River Basin Management. Ecohydrology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0841-2_3-1

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