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Poster 1-3-6: Water energy environment nexus under different urbanization patterns: a sensitivity based framework for identifying key feedbacks

XVIII IWRA World Water Congress Beijing China 2023
Sub-theme 1: Water-Human-Economy(Agriculture, Industry, City...) - Ecology Nexus under a Changing Environment
Author(s): Ye Zhao, Xiang Zhang, Jing Xu, Joseph S. Smith, Jun Xia, Haifeng Jia
Ye Zhao^a,c Xiang Zhang^a,c Jing Xu^a,c Joseph S. Smith^b Jun Xia^a,c Haifeng Jia^d

a. State Key Lab of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China

b. Department of Food, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, 590 Woody Hayes Drive, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

c. Hubei Key Lab of Water System Science for Sponge City Construction, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China

d. School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Abstract

Backgrounds

In the context of urbanization, water, energy, and environment (W E E) systems are increasingly connected thus can be profiled as a W E E nexus

Methodology

This paper proposes a sensitivity based framework consisting of four components Community sensitivity serves as the missing link, tying together two feedback loops driven by economy and environment

Results

The coevolution process is divided into four cyclic stages
Development patterns exert a salient effect on community sensitivity
Only under sustainable development, can Wuhan anticipate achieving the goal of carbon neutrality by the 2060 s

Conclusions

The proposed framework is competent in modeling the W E E nexus
The peaks of different variables occur at different times
Possible signals from the system should be anticipated and given high priority