Water utilization regime framework

Author: Shuang Song

State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,

Faculty of Geographical Science,

Beijing Normal University

Beijing 100875, China

Project Goal

Aims at developing a general transition framework of regimes, which gives a sketch of relationships between human societies and their water utilization.

GitHub: https://github.com/SongshGeo/water_utilization_regime_framework

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Water-utilization-regime-framework

This is a preliminary version.

Article structure

Introduction

Importance of water and human activities impacts on water cycles.
Coupled water utilization and social development, with regimes.
Three dimensions of water utilization and their phenomenon.
Our goals and design.

Results

Detection of regime shifts.
Drivers of regime shifts.

Discussion

Interpret of regime shifts within the Yellow River Basin.
Transition framework towards nature-society dualistic water cycle.
Dilemmas along with developing trajectories and future directions.

Project structure

I organized this projects as following structure:

Folder notebooks archives the Jupyter notebooks files to plot figures.
Folder script archives the python scripts.
tex is manuscript, where main and sup are main text and supplementary materials.
tools are self-defined functions used in the whole project.
figures, data used for saving figures and data.
drafts are some testing scripts.