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Water security evaluation in Yellow River basin

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018
Water security is an important basis for making water security protection strategy, which concerns regional economic and social sustainable development. In this paper, watershed water security evaluation index system including 3 levels of 5 criterion layers (water resources security, water ecological security and water environment security, water ...
Guiqin Jiang, Liyuan He, Juan Jing
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Achieving Water Security in the Yellow River Basin

2023
This brief explores ways of strengthening water security in the Yellow River basin of the People’s Republic of China. It discusses the challenges of water shortages, flooding, soil erosion, high loads of sedimentation, water pollution, environmental degradation, and climate change.
Silvia Cardascia, Tom Panella
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Nitrogen Contamination in the Yellow River Basin of China

Journal of Environmental Quality, 2002
ABSTRACTNitrogen contamination is one of the most serious problems in the Yellow River of China. This study was conducted to analyze monitoring data on nitrogen contamination for the Yellow River basin in the years 1980, 1990, 1997, and 1999. Several significant results have arisen from the study.
Xinghui, Xia, Jingsong, Zhou, Zhifeng, Yang   +2 more
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Natural runoff changes in the Yellow River Basin

Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2004
The driving factors of runoff changes can be divided into precipitation factor and non-precipitation factor, and they can also be divided into natural factor and human activity factor, In this paper, the ways and methods of these driving factors impacting on runoff changes are analyzed at first, and then according to the relationship between ...
Li Chunhui, Yang Zhifeng
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Geomorphic Diversity of Rivers in the Upper Yellow River Basin

2016
The Yellow River is the third longest river in Asia and the sixth longest river in the world. The Upper Yellow River lies at the margins of and atop the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, the highest plateau in the world with an average elevation of 4000 m above sea level and an area of about 2.6 million km2.
Gary John Brierley, Guo-an Yu, Zhiwei Li
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Water Distribution Control Model in the Yellow River Basin

Water International, 2004
This study develops a water distribution control model to manage and operate a multipurpose, multi-reservoir system in the Yellow River Basin. The aim is to make the best use of limited water resources and to coordinate different uses. The overall control task is made up of two processes.
Jian-xia Chang, Qiang Huang, Yi-min Wang
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Ecological Governance of the Yellow River Basin

GBP Proceedings Series
As an important ecological barrier and cultural cradle of China, the ecological governance effectiveness of the Yellow River Basin not only concerns the sustainable development of the region, but also has a profound impact on the ecological security and coordinated economic and social development of ethnic minority areas.
Rishuai Xing, Xiaoyi Cheng
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Water Allocation of Yellow River Basin in Shanxi

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2012
Traditionally the water resources development activities in China were related to improving irrigated agriculture. The quantity based administrative allocation is the most common water allocation mode in China today. This paper analysis the water allocation of Yellow River basin in Shanxi province via technical methods.
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Agricultural water productivity assessment for the Yellow River Basin

Agricultural Water Management, 2011
Agricultural water productivity (WP) has been recognized as an important indicator of agricultural water management. This study assesses the WP for irrigated (WPI) and rainfed (WPR) crops in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China. WPI and WPR are calculated for major crops (corn, wheat, rice, and soybean) using experimental, statistical and empirically ...
Ximing Cai, Yi-Chen E. Yang, Claudia Ringler, Jianshi Zhao, Liangzhi You   +4 more
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Optimal allocation of water resources in large river basins: II. Application to Yellow River Basin

Water Resources Management, 1995
In this paper, the theoretical approach presented in Part I is demonstrated by means of case study on the optimal allocation water resources for Yellow River Basin of China. The object of the case study was to find the optimization of water allocation among subregions and trunk streams of the basin in order to achieve the maximum national economic ...
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