Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

J Liu, H Yang, SN Gosling, M Kummu, M Flörke… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions

Y Wada, MFP Bierkens, A De Roo… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human
activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal …

Pollution exacerbates China's water scarcity and its regional inequality

T Ma, S Sun, G Fu, JW Hall, Y Ni, L He, J Yi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inadequate water quality can mean that water is unsuitable for a variety of human uses, thus
exacerbating freshwater scarcity. Previous large-scale water scarcity assessments mostly …

Impacts of international trade on global sustainable development

Z Xu, Y Li, SN Chau, T Dietz, C Li, L Wan, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with
169 targets. International trade has substantial influences on global sustainability and …

Quality matters: Pollution exacerbates water scarcity and sectoral output risks in China

J Li, J Yang, M Liu, Z Ma, W Fang, J Bi - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Pollution exacerbates a region's water scarcity by making water unfit for different uses and
reducing freshwater availability. Local water scarcity may lead to economic output losses …

The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability

Z Huang, X Yuan, X Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has become a major issue to sustainable development. It can be estimated by
available fresh water resources and human water withdrawal, which are affected by both …

Unraveling the effect of inter-basin water transfer on reducing water scarcity and its inequality in China

S Sun, X Zhou, H Liu, Y Jiang, H Zhou, C Zhang, G Fu - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Securing water supply in the face of increasing water scarcity is one important challenge
faced by humanity in sustainable development. Inter-basin water transfer is widely applied to …

Trade-induced carbon-economic inequality within China: measurement, sources, and determinants

Q Zhu, C Xu, CC Lee - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon-economic inequality (CEI) occurs due to the unequal exchange between embodied
CO 2 emissions and value-added in interregional trade. How to reduce CEI has become an …

Global land-water nexus: Agricultural land and freshwater use embodied in worldwide supply chains

B Chen, MY Han, K Peng, SL Zhou, L Shao… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
As agricultural land and freshwater inextricably interrelate and interact with each other, the
conventional water and land policy in “silos” should give way to nexus thinking when …

Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems

Z Xu, X Chen, J Liu, Y Zhang, S Chau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its …