2023-04-19
The research paper "Telecoupling China's city-level water withdrawal with distant consumption" by Professor Huang Kai from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering was published in Environmental Science & Technology（IF=11.357）, a top journal in the field of environment. The main information of the paper is as follows: Telecoupling China’s city-level water withdrawal with distant consumption. Jixuan Li, Kai Huang*, Yajuan Yu, Shen Qu, Ming Xu.Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57: 4332-4341。
"Clean water" is included as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6 while there are 4 billion people around the world still suffer from severe water scarcity for at least one month a year. At the meantime, global economic integration has greatly promoted the geographical separation of production and consumption caused by trade, leading to the trans-regional flow of a large amount of water resources in the global commodity supply chain.
In this study, the concept of “telecoupled water withdrawal” was proposed and a multi-regional input-output model was constructed based on domestic and international nested data. A high spatial and sectoral resolution water use list of 350 cities in China was established under domestic and international remote consumption, and the key countries and regions affecting the pattern of urban water use in China were identified. The research results provide data support for understanding the remote coupling between local water use and remote consumption, and provide scientific reference for the collaborative sustainability of urban water resources management and inter-regional trade in China.
The first author of this paper is Li Jixuan, a master student from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, and signature unit of the first author is Beijing Forestry University, and this work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52070017) and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(9172012).
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00757
