Title
System dynamics simulation model for assessing socio-economic impacts of different levels of environmental flow allocation in the Weihe River Basin, China.
Abstract
This study develops a complex system dynamics model (SD) reflecting interactions between water resources, Environmental Flow (EF) and socio-economy using SD software package "Vensim PLE". The proposed model is employed to assess socio-economic impacts of different levels of EF allocation in the Weihe River Basin of China. Four alternative socio-economic growth patterns and four EF allocation schemes are designed to simulate those impacts. The results reveal that developed SD model performance well in reflecting the dynamic behavior of the system in the current study area. In the meanwhile, an optimal growth pattern considering both socio-economic growth and EF requirements are also found by comparing the different scenario simulation results. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ejor.2012.03.014
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Environmental flow,System dynamics,Vensim,Socio-economic impact,Scenario analysis
Environmental resource management,Drainage basin,China,Flow (psychology),Scenario analysis,Software,System dynamics,Water resources,Operations management,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
221
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.94
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shouke Wei131.62
Hong Yang231.28
Jinxi Song330.94
Karim C. Abbaspour473.11
Zongxue Xu564.35