Environmental Kuznets Curve, Flood Disaster of China and Stormwater Resource Reuse

Abstract:

We analyzed the relationship between the national flood disaster area, drought disaster area , total disaster area and per capita GDP from 1970-2011 in this study, which use the theory of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and regression analysis model. The study showed that drought disaster area and per capita GDP showed a typical "U" shaped of Kuznets curve, flood disaster area and per capita GDP showed "inverted U + U" typed of Kuznets curve. From China's current economic situation, flood is an important factor to affect Chinas economic development, especially the regional economic development. Thinking about how to implement stromwater resource reuse from a strategic perspective is an important issue of land resource utilization and regional economic development. So we propose a strategic concept based on the empirical analysis.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 522-524)
• Pages: 907-910
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.522-524.907
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Chang Fu Huang*, Jing Zhou
• Keywords: Environmental Kuznets Curve, Flood Disaster of China, Stormwater Resource Reuse

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