Managing land carrying capacity: Key to achieving sustainable production systems for food security

X Wang - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many previous studies have estimated the carrying capacity and feasible planetary
boundaries for humankind. However, less attention has been given to how we will …

Groundwater sustainability: A review of the interactions between science and policy

AS Elshall, AD Arik, AI El-Kadi, S Pierce… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Concerns over groundwater depletion and ecosystem degradation have led to the
incorporation of the concept of groundwater sustainability as a groundwater policy …

Effects of nitrogen application rate and irrigation regime on growth, yield, and water-nitrogen use efficiency of drip-irrigated winter wheat in the North China Plain

Z Si, M Zain, F Mehmood, G Wang, Y Gao… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drip irrigation has been gradually adopted for winter wheat production in the North China
Plain (NCP) due to significant saving from using irrigation water and improving water and …

Ecological restoration exacerbates the agriculture-induced water crisis in North China Region

Y Zhou, J Dong, Y Cui, M Zhao, X Wang, Q Tang… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The North China Region (NCR), a typical grain base and highly populated area in
China, is a well-recognized global groundwater funnel. Severe water shortage has been …

[HTML][HTML] Responses of grain yield and water-nitrogen dynamic of drip-irrigated winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to different nitrogen fertigation and water regimes in …

AKM Hamani, SA Abubakar, Z Si, R Kama… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The North China Plain (NCP) has progressively implemented drip irrigation for
winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production because of its substantial irrigation water …

Optimizing irrigation for winter wheat to maximize yield and maintain high-efficient water use in a semi-arid environment

Y You, P Song, X Yang, Y Zheng, L Dong… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Optimizing irrigation scheduling is vital in maintaining high crop yield and sustainable water
use in water-limited regions worldwide. In this study, a 4-year field experiment (2016–2020) …

[HTML][HTML] A meta-model for understanding 'green-red loop'social-water interactions at a global scale

L Liu, KP Chun, A Mijic - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Within the coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), social-water interactions exhibit
the 'green-loop'and 'red-loop'patterns, where social development is dependent on the local …

Assessing the effects of precipitation and irrigation on winter wheat yield and water productivity in North China Plain

R Zeng, F Yao, S Zhang, S Yang, Y Bai, J Zhang… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Achieving high crop yield with less irrigation is important to improve water productivity (WP)
and irrigation water productivity (IWP) in water-limited regions in the North China Plain …

A meta-model of socio-hydrological phenomena for sustainable water management

A Mijic, L Liu, J O'Keeffe, B Dobson, KP Chun - Nature Sustainability, 2024 - nature.com
Overemphasizing technological solutions in water management without considering the
broader systems perspective can result in unintended consequences. For example …

Rapid surface water expansion due to increasing artificial reservoirs and aquaculture ponds in North China Plain

Y Zhou, J Dong, Y Cui, S Zhou, Z Li, X Wang, X Deng… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water shortage has severely threatened the North China Plain (NCP), a typical grain bowl
and highly populated and urbanized area in China. As surface water body area (SWA) is a …