Telecoupling In Urban Water Systems: An Examination Of Beijing's Imported Water Supply
March 9, 2016 - Deines, Jillian M.; Liu, Xiao; Liu, Jianguo
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EmailJournal or Book Title: WATER INTERNATIONAL
Volume/Issue: 41
Year Published: 2016
Urban centres increasingly have difficulties meeting water needs within their hydrologic basins. To sustain urban water supply, cities and water source regions have increased telecouplings (socio-economic and environmental interactions over distances). To analyse these complex interactions, we apply the new telecoupling framework to the water-stressed megacity of Beijing's imported water supply. We found that Beijing's remote water sources have lower risk than local supply, but connections impact the sending systems. The telecoupling framework provides a standard, systematic and flexible tool for evaluating the sustainability of urban water supply. It also identifies a number of research gaps for future quantification efforts.
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2015.1113485
Type of Publication: Article
