New patterns in China’s water footprint: Analysis of spatial and structural transitions from a regional perspective

Xiong, Yiling; Tian, Xin; Liu, Shangwei; Tang, Zhipeng

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118942

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“…We used elasticity analysis to determine those expenditure categories that are more sensitive to pandemic responses, based on the changing influence of expenditure on the water footprint. Elasticity analysis has been used to measure the variation of water footprint and other environmental footprints relative to changes in household expenditure (Ivanova et al., 2015; Xiong et al., 2020). The water footprint elasticity coefficient for expenditure category i was defined as the ratio of the change of consumption‐based household water footprint to the associated economic output within a certain period.…”

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Uncovering the Dynamics of Consumption‐Based Household Water Footprint in Response to Pandemic: The Hysteresis Effect of Disruption

Chen

2023

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The socioeconomic disruption of COVID‐19 has strong implications for water management. However, it remains unclear how water use related to urban and rural household consumption responded to the outbreak. Taking 15 provincial regions in China for a case study, we quantified the variations of consumption‐based household water footprint induced by the first outbreak of the pandemic and tracked the responsive changes of interregional virtual water flows and control relationships. We found in many regions, the most drastic change occurred only a quarter after the major outbreak, when the average water footprint of urban and rural households decreased by 13% and 9%, respectively. This indicates the presence of a hysteretic effect of disruption to household expenditures. With the subsequent recovery of household consumption, the water footprints in many regions rebounded and even surpassed the historical values. Guangdong had a fast rebound in its net virtual water inflow related to urban households because of the fast recovery of its manufacturing and services activities. The pandemic‐related water footprint dynamics suggest not only the necessity of timely managing supply chains to prevent shortage of water and water‐intensive products, but also the importance of fostering consumption adjustments for conserving water in a post‐pandemic era.

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Uncovering the Dynamics of Consumption‐Based Household Water Footprint in Response to Pandemic: The Hysteresis Effect of Disruption

Chen

2023

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“…To provide these goods and services, those regions would use water during the production process. In other words, urbanization may have an unexpected cross-regional water footprint (Xiong et al, 2020). With the improvement in infrastructure and the implementation of domestic and international dual circulation policies, commodities and services will circulate more smoothly, such that the impact of urbanization on the cross-regional water footprint might be magnified, which could affect the regional balance between the supply and demand of water resources, even worsening the regional water scarcity (Zhang et al, 2019).…”

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The Impact of Consumption Patterns and Urbanization on the Cross-Regional Water Footprint in China: A Decomposition Analysis

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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The increasingly urbanized population and corresponding consumption changes are causing the household water footprint to rise. However, the quantity of these changes remains to be determined. Here, we combine a two-stage factor reversible structural decomposition analysis with multi-regional input-output analysis to explore the hidden driving forces of the changes in the household water footprint and the impacts of urbanization and consumption patterns on the cross-regional water footprint from 2012 to 2017. The results show that the national household water footprint dropped from 292.33 billion m3 to 291.18 billion m3 and exhibited a decreasing trend in the east and an increasing trend in the west; the driving factors were classified and ranked as technological level (−75.6 billion m3), consumption patterns (52.6 billion m3) and population (21.8 billion m3). Among all driving factors, both urbanization and the associated consumption pattern transformation caused an increase in the cross-regional water footprint, except in several developed provinces, such as Shanghai and Guangdong, which suggested that decoupling might exist between economic development and the water footprint. Overall, heterogeneous policies were suggested to be made according to local water resource endowments and their positions in the production chain. Our results clarify the effects of different socio-economic factors on the cross-regional water footprint during the process of urbanization and provide refined insights for future water conservation.

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“…Hence, to address this problem, we refer to structural decomposition analysis (SDA). SDA is often used to quantify the contribution of socioeconomic factors to environmental variables, such as energy use , carbon emissions (Fang and Yang 2021;Luo et al 2020), virtual water (Feng et al 2017;Sun et al 2019;Xiong et al 2020;Zhang et al 2012), mercury emissions (Guo et al 2019) and other fields (Zhang et al 2021). For example, believe that the growth of economic scale is the main reason for the outflow of industrial embodied wastewater and that the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure can reduce the transfer and discharge of industrial embodied wastewater.…”

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Socioeconomic development and tele-consumption contribute to the changes in pesticide use in China

Wang

et al. 2022

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The massive use of pesticides has caused environmental problems, and it is urgent to reduce the use of pesticides. Pesticide use is closely related to social and economic activities, but few studies have quantified the contribution of socioeconomic factors to changes in pesticide use. Hence, based on the multiregional input–output (MRIO) model and structural decomposition analysis (SDA), this study quantified the contribution of pesticide use intensity, production structure, local consumption and distant consumption to changes in pesticide use in China from 2012 to 2017 and further analysed the effect of distant consumption on local pesticide use at the provincial and sectoral levels. The results showed that the total use of pesticides showed a downward trend during 2012-2017. Specifically, the intensity of pesticide use was an important factor for the decrease in pesticide use, resulting in a decrease of 4.9´105 tons of pesticide use. Nevertheless, local and distant consumption were the primary factors for the increase in pesticide use, resulting in increases of 4.37×105 and 1.21×105 tons, respectively. More importantly, provinces with high added value of primary industry bear the risk of pesticide pollution in provinces with high per capita GDP due to distant consumption. Moreover, the agriculture and food sectors are the most important sectors affected by distant consumption. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify provincial and sectoral responsibilities for pesticide use due to distant consumption and to encourage cross-regional technical support and sectoral cooperation for pesticide reduction.

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New patterns in China’s water footprint: Analysis of spatial and structural transitions from a regional perspective

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

Uncovering the Dynamics of Consumption‐Based Household Water Footprint in Response to Pandemic: The Hysteresis Effect of Disruption

Uncovering the Dynamics of Consumption‐Based Household Water Footprint in Response to Pandemic: The Hysteresis Effect of Disruption

The Impact of Consumption Patterns and Urbanization on the Cross-Regional Water Footprint in China: A Decomposition Analysis

Socioeconomic development and tele-consumption contribute to the changes in pesticide use in China

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