Authors: LONG Ai-hua 1, 2, WANG Hao 1, YU Fu-liang 1, WANG Jian-hua 1
1 . China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China
2 . Xinjiang Water Resource Bureau, Urumqi 830000, China
Abstract: This paper explores the basic elements, scientific contents (including process, structure, flux and regulation), categories and their scientific relations of social water cycle research. Based on the up to date evolvements summarization of social water cycle research, the current key hot spots of concerned scientific topics were discussed, such as water deployment aiming at harmonious water-human being interactions, decrease of water demand, blue water, green water, virtual water and food security, security of hydro-ecology and water environment, water saving-sewerage reduction and cyclic economy. It shows that the coupling and interaction mechanisms between social and natural water cycles, social water cycle system and water quantity and quality evolvement mechanism, social water cycle regulation and demand management are the three key scientific topics. According to the key scientific topics mentioned above, this paper put forward some frontier fields of social water cycle research, such as the rules of economical society development in the view of water cycle and the mechanism of virtual water flow, simulation model and methods, appraisement and regulations of social water cycle system, et al. The paper constitutes the theoretical method and scientific framework in this field with the reference cited.
Key words: Social Water Cycle, Scientific Contents, Frontier of Fields
Published in: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2011
Article ID: 0559-9350 (2011) 05-0505-09
