Research on Driving Mechanism of Socio-Economic Factors for Water Cycle

Abstract:

The paper selects water price as a potentially effective socio-economic factor for the mitigation of conflict between socio-economic development and regional water resources in the Weihe River basin on basis of the driving mechanism research of socio-economic factors for water cycle, and evaluates the variation of socio-economic and hydrological variables by comprehensive simulation of economic system and water resources system by coupling of economic model CGE, water allocation model ROWAS and distributed water cycle model WEP. The results indicate that raising water price would bring down socio-economic development and regional water demand to some extent, but regional water resources tensions just reduce so slightly that corresponding schemes turn out to be not sufficient to deal with water crisis in the Weihe River basin.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 955-959)
• Pages: 3011-3014
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.955-959.3011
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Chun Feng Hao*, Yang Wen Jia, Cun Wen Niu, Li Li Liang
• Keywords: CGE, ROWAS, Water Cycle, Water Price, WEP

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