A setup for a scenario-driven water balance at landscape scale-assessment with AKWA-M®-Embedded in a model framework for land-use planning's decision support in mountainous southwest China

authored by

Andreas Wahren, Karin Berkhoff, Albrecht Münch, Sylvia Herrmann, Karl Heinz Feger

Abstract

Land-cover changes cause a loss of natural vegetation in many parts of the world. In the Xishuangbanna (Chinese Source) district (Yunnan (Chinese Source) Province), rubber plantations replace tropical rainforests covering already an area of about 10% of the study area (2007). There, land-use allocation is mostly driven by economic considerations. Thus, local planning authorities need decision support for land-use planning issues, which integrate socio-economic and ecological aspects. Within the NabanFrame, an agro-economic, ecological and social model was applied, which, altogether, interacted with a land allocation model via defined interfaces. Effects on the water cycle, ecological conditions as well as socio-economic should be considered by integrating the spatially distributed rainfall-runoff and water balance model AKWA-M® in the model setup.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Environmental Planning

External Organisation(s)

Technische Universität Dresden
Dr. Dittrich and Partner Hydro-Consult GmbH

Type

Article

Journal

Journal of earth science

Volume

21

Pages

974-978

No. of pages

5

ISSN

1674-487X

Publication date

02.12.2010

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 15 - Life on Land

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-010-0151-8 (Access: Closed)