Socio-hydrologic perspectives of the co-evolution of humans and water in the Tarim River basin, Western China: The Taiji-Tire model

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1289-1303

  Liu, Y ^a   Tian, F ^a   Hu, H ^a   Sivapalan, M ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND RECLAMATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; WATERSHEDS; WATERWORKS;

DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; RAPID POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SOLAR BUILDINGS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; ECOHYDROLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPLOITATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER CHANNEL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84897568911     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1289-2014     Document Type: Article

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