Water environmental planning considering the influence of non-linear characteristics

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zeng, Guang-ming | Qin, Xiao-sheng | Wang, Wei | Huang, Guo-he | Li, Jian-bing | Statzner, B.

Affiliations: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China | URA CNRS 1451, Ecologie des Eaux Douces et des Grands Fleuves, University Lyon, France

Abstract: In practical water environmental planning, the influence of the non-linear characteristics on the benefit of environmental investment was seldom taken into consideration. This paper demonstrates that there exist a lot of non-linear behaviors in water environment by emphatically analyzing the influence of the non-linear characteristics of the economic scale, the meandering river and the model on water environmental planning, which will make a certain impact on the water environmental planning that sometimes cannot be neglected. This paper also preliminarily explores how to integrate the non-linear characteristics into water environmental planning. The results showed that compared with traditional methods, water environmental planning considering non-linear characteristics has its prevalence and it is necessary to develop the relevant planning theories and methods.

Keywords: water environment, non-linear characteristics, planning

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 800-807, 2003