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Kosi basin located between the north Nepal and south Tibet of China has abundant water resources. Its recharge sources are glacier meltwater and precipitation in this area. However due to the topographical effects, the distribution of rainfall is uneven in space and time. In order to guarantee the harmonious development of social economy, it’s necessary to evaluate the sustainable utilization of water resources. This paper adopts GIS spatial analysis methods to establish evaluation indexes of water resources sustainable based on DPSIR model, and determine the weights of each evaluation index by utilizing analytic hierarchy process. The results show that: (1) the proposed methods can reflect the development level of regional water resources system and its harmonious state with society and economy. (2) The comprehensive evaluation value changes are between 4.0 and 6.9. (3) The sustainable utilization level gradually increases from northwest to southeast. (4) The presented methods can quantitatively evaluate the sustainability of regional water resources.
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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Funds of China (grant no. 41301094), the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. KZZD-EW-08-01, the lead strategic project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. XDB03030507), the “one-three-five” directivity innovation project of IMHE (grant no. sds-135-1205-03), and the open fund for spatial information technology key lab bases of the Ministry of Land and Resources of China (grant no. KLGSIT2014-06).
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Kong, B., He, B., Nan, X., Deng, W., Li, A. (2016). The Evaluation of Water Resources Sustainable Utilization in Kosi Basin Based on DPSIR Model. In: Bian, F., Xie, Y. (eds) Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem. GRMSE 2015 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49155-3_56
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