Authors: WANG Hao1, LONG Ai-hua1, 2, YU Fu-liang1, WANG Dang-xian1
1. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China
2. Xinjing Water Resource Bureal, Wulumuqi 830000, China
Abstract: Starting from the evolvement in conception of social water cycle, this paper explored its scientific definition and connotation, differentiated its essential characteristics, and analyzed its impact factors and their reciprocities between each other. On this basis, the paper put forward the dynamical mechanisms of the social water cycle, including economics development, metabolism of water environment, regional exploitation and planning, equitableness, efficiency and decision-making, which are necessary for making up a base of academic analysis for further research on social water cycle.
Key words: social water cycle, definition and connotation, essential characters, impact factors, dynamical mechanisms
Published in: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2011
Article ID: 0559-9350 (2011) 04-0379-09
