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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab1040
	The demanding quest for harmony: China's polarizing freshwater resilience map
	Varis O.; Kummu M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:5
英文摘要	China's millennial quest for harmony between nature and humanity is as important today as it has always been. Today's challenges are momentous; but at the same time, China's capacity to cope with them is strengthening rapidly. We analyse China's freshwaters using the social-ecological systems approach in a novel way. Quantitative, globally-scaled indicators for freshwater vulnerability, adaptive capacity (AC) and resilience, and their temporal evolution from 1990-2015, are analysed spatially. China's AC (governance, economy and human development) represents heterogeneity, levelling close to the global range's mean level. Coastal areas are somewhat better off than other parts. In turn, ecological vulnerability (EV) (environmental footprint, natural hazards, water scarcity) shows more pronounced contrasts across China. The human footprint and natural hazards are greatest in the east and the lowest in the west, whereas water-scarcity woes stand out in the North China Plain and Xinjiang. The North China Plain (above all the Huang basin) is particularly challenging, yet the AC there has grown fast and therefore resilience has started to grow. Nevertheless, China's capacity is now growing rapidly, allowing improvements in resilience in large parts of the country. It may provide an opportunity for changing the tide in the most challenging areas, too, but requires continuous and massive commitment. Yet China still showed a polarizing development in the years 1990-2015 in terms of spatial development in AC, EV and resilience, meaning that the diversity and heterogeneity of the country have continued to grow. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	adaptive capacity; China; resilience; river basins; vulnerability; water
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Ecology; Hazards; Adaptive capacity; China; resilience; River basins; vulnerability; Water; adaptive management; ecosystem resilience; environmental indicator; governance approach; heterogeneity; human development index; resource scarcity; river basin; temporal evolution; vulnerability; water footprint; China; North China Plain; Xinjiang Uygur
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154580
作者单位	Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo, FI-00076, Finland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Varis O.,Kummu M.. The demanding quest for harmony: China's polarizing freshwater resilience map[J],2019,14(5).
APA	Varis O.,&Kummu M..(2019).The demanding quest for harmony: China's polarizing freshwater resilience map.Environmental Research Letters,14(5).
MLA	Varis O.,et al."The demanding quest for harmony: China's polarizing freshwater resilience map".Environmental Research Letters 14.5(2019).