Anthropogenic stresses on the world's big rivers

J Best - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
The world's big rivers and their floodplains were central to development of civilization and
are now home to c. 2.7 billion people. They are economically vital whilst also constituting …

Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A research agenda

JPD Addie, MR Glass, J Nelles - Regional Studies, Regional …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
An interdisciplinary 'infrastructure turn'has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the
concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating water resource carrying capacity in Pearl River-West River economic Belt based on portfolio weights and GRA-TOPSIS-CCDM

X Zhang, X Duan - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Research on the spatial differences in the water resource carrying capacity (WRCC) and
their causes can effectively address the imbalance of water resources and enhance the …

Real-time water level prediction of cascaded channels based on multilayer perception and recurrent neural network

T Ren, X Liu, J Niu, X Lei, Z Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Water level prediction is crucial to water diversion through cascaded channels, and the
prediction accuracies are still unsatisfying due to the difficulties and challenges caused by …

How voluntary is poverty alleviation resettlement in China?

K Lo, M Wang - Habitat International, 2018 - Elsevier
Voluntary resettlement, typically framed by the principle of free, prior, and informed consent
(FPIC), has emerged as a preferred alternative to the heavily criticized forced resettlement …

Evolving efficiency of inter-basin water transfers in regional water stress alleviation

K Duan, S Qu, N Liu, GR Dobbs, PV Caldwell… - Resources, Conservation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inter-basin water transfer (IBT) is widely used to mitigate water stress by diverting water from
a relatively water-rich region. However, it is unclear how the IBTs' role evolves with the …

An integrated assessment of China's South—North water transfer project

S Rogers, D Chen, H Jiang, I Rutherfurd… - Geographical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract China's South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) is a vast and still expanding
network of infrastructure and institutions that moves water from the Yangtze River and its …

A fog-collecting surface mimicking the Namib beetle: its water collection efficiency and influencing factors

J Lei, Z Guo - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Shortage of water resources and deterioration of water quality are becoming more and more
serious today. Inspired by Namib Desert beetles, scientists designed biomimetic fog …

A review of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of China's South–North Water Transfer Project: A sustainability perspective

MC Wilson, XY Li, YJ Ma, AT Smith, J Wu - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
China's South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) has the potential to transfer as much
as 44.8 km3 year− 1 of water from the Yangtze River basin to the Yellow River basin …

Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism

MR Glass, JPD Addie, J Nelles - Regional Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
An 'infrastructure turn'across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of
interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is sha** urban and regional space. This …