Embracing Risk, Uncertainty and Water Allocation Reform When Planning for Green Growth

Gallagher, Louise; Laflaive, Xavier; Zaeske, Andrew L.; Brown, Casey; Lange, Glenn‐Marie; Ahlroth, Sofia; Castaneda, Juan-Pablo; Fanaian, Safa; Joyce, John; Kamar, Eiman; Bahri, Aki√ßa; Miralles‐Wilhelm, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.aqpro.2016.06.004

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“…Reynaud proposed the direction of the adjustment of industrial structure by digging into the relationship between France's water demand and economic structure [8]. According to the optimal allocation of water resources, Gallagher analyzed the path of industrial structure, existing risks, and circumventions with his partners [9]. Jezabel analyzed the evolution of water consumption structure based on statistical principles [10].…”

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Using Niche Model to Analyze Water Consumption Structure in Jinan City, Shandong

Yue,

Nan,

Qian

et al. 2024

Water

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Water resources are essential for healthy economic growth. Based on data on water consumption and industrial structure, this paper analyzes the evolution trends of the regional water consumption structure and industrial structure in Jinan City, Shandong Province, with the theory of the niche and ecological entropy, which may provide guidance for water resource utilization and social economy development in Jinan City. By establishing a coupling coordination model of the niche and ecological entropy, the dynamic niche evolution of the water consumption structure and industrial structure in Jinan City is analyzed. The results show the following: (1) The niche of agricultural water consumption accounts for the largest portion of the niche of water consumption, with an overall decreasing trend year by year. On the contrary, those of industrial and domestic water consumption have shown slow and fluctuating upward trends, respectively. Similar characteristics and trends are also reflected in the ecological entropy of water consumption. (2) In terms of industrial structure, the niche of the secondary industry accounts for the largest proportion among the three main industries, and only the niche of the tertiary industry is fluctuating upward. (3) Over the years, the overall coupling and coordination degree between the water consumption structure and industrial structure in Jinan was classified as a low degree of imbalance–weak coupling coordination. Among them, the coupling and coordination degree of the tertiary industry is the highest, that of the primary industry is the lowest, and that of the secondary industry is increasing year by year. Thus, it is necessary for Jinan to develop efficient water-saving agriculture and high-tech industry, maintain the development momentum of the tertiary industry, and continue to improve its coupling and coordination status.

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Using Niche Model to Analyze Water Consumption Structure in Jinan City, Shandong

Yue,

Nan,

Qian

et al. 2024

Water

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“…Goswami et al 1 developed a comprehensive model by adding spatial planning and economic analysis to the food-energy-water nexus framework. Gallagher et al 12 emphasized the special role of water in green growth and its relationship with economic activities, ecosystem functions, and social health. Hu et al 13 proposed a multi-objective model for equitable water allocation, economic efficiency, and risk control.…”

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Water-constrained green development framework based on economically-allocable water resources

Bozorgzadeh

Mousavi

2023

Sci Rep

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Water as a main driver for sustainable development (SD) should be optimally allocated to different users to support economic, social, and environmental functions. Traditional approaches are not able to account for all the mentioned functions simultaneously, therefore a change in the allocation approaches is necessary. This paper proposes a new framework for inter-sectoral water allocation called “water-constrained green development” (WCGD) to better meet the SD goals. The framework optimally allocates economically-allocable water (EAW), which is the total available water resources left after subtracting the amount of water required for drinking, sanitation, and environment (DSE), to different job classes. It was tested in Sistan Region- a low-developed area in southeast of Iran- which stands on agriculture. In the recent years, because of water crisis, intensity of dust problem, lack of sustained occupation, and immigration, the region’s rate of population growth has been negative. Also, due to decrease of Helmand River inflow, Hamoun wetland, being the major source of food and shelter for the Sistan’s residents, has been degraded. Therefore, Sistan Region needs to take a new development route. The shares of occupation and gross domestic product (GDP) in the agricultural sector of Sistan are respectively 29.1 and 14.8%, whereas they are on average 1 and 7% in Iran. Application of the proposed framework in Sistan Region under three scenarios of available EAW resources showed that the optimal reallocation of water among 15 job classes can improve job availability and GDP of the region currently suffering from poor economy and employment conditions. Based on the optimal job pattern obtained, the share of GDP of Sistan’s agricultural sector drops to 7.1% while the shares of industrial and service sectors increase respectively from 9.7 and 75.4% to 13.7 and 79.2%, which are close to those of the country averages. Also, under the WCGD-based optimal solution, 68, 14, and 18% of people will respectively be employed in service, industry, and agriculture sectors. Additionally, the total available jobs and GDP will increase by 8.9 and 51.1%, respectively, leading to improved socio-economic well-being of the region’s people and protection of its environmental resources.

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“…Few studies brought energy consumption control for water sources optimization under considering energy-water nexus in water delivery, purification, allocation, and wastewater treatment. Meanwhile, the risk for the unbalanced water resources allocation among industrial sectors has been considered in the previous studies (Gallagher et al 2016;Hu et al 2016;Fu et al 2018;Li et al 2020). In these studies, the risk is directly expressed through the difference between the water resources requirement and the actual water amount.…”

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Water management for industrial development, energy conservation, and subjective attitudes: a comprehensive risk-oriented model to explore the tolerance of unbalanced allocation problem

Xie

et al. 2021

Journal of Water and Climate Change

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In this study, a new concept concerning comprehensive characteristics of water resources utilization as an index for risk modeling within the water allocation management model is proposed to explore the tolerance of unbalanced allocation problem under water–energy nexus. The model is integrated with interval two-stage stochastic programming for reflecting system uncertainties. These uncertainties are associated with the industrial production feature and the decision-making process. With respect to water–energy nexus, energy proposed is mainly focused on the consumption intensity of water purification and transportation from different water sources. The developed model is applied for industrial water resources allocation management in Henan province, China. Multiple scenarios related to disparate energy consumption control and the comprehensive risk levels are simulated to obtain a reasonable trade-off among system profit, comprehensive risk, and energy consumption. The results indicated that the strict comprehensive risk management or energy consumption control measures could cause damage to system benefit owing to decreasing the flexibility of industrial water resources distributions, and the preliminary energy consumption or the comprehensive risk control would be beneficial to moderate the conflict between industrial sectors and water resources, and accelerate industrial structure transformation in the future.

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Embracing Risk, Uncertainty and Water Allocation Reform When Planning for Green Growth

Cited by 8 publications

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Using Niche Model to Analyze Water Consumption Structure in Jinan City, Shandong

Using Niche Model to Analyze Water Consumption Structure in Jinan City, Shandong

Water-constrained green development framework based on economically-allocable water resources

Water management for industrial development, energy conservation, and subjective attitudes: a comprehensive risk-oriented model to explore the tolerance of unbalanced allocation problem

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