Dan Wu, Zhuling Pan

Dan Wu

14 June 2023

Water resource allocation, Multi-objective coupling, Stakeholder, Industrial structure, Adaptability.

Based on 200 research literature on water resource allocation in river basins collected from the core collection of Web of Science from 1990 to 2022, CiteSpace software was used to visually analyze the published research institutions, teams, and keywords, and to summarize the methods of water resource allocation in river basins. The research results of water resource allocation in river basins indicate that from 1990 to 2005, the focus was on integrating and reflecting multidimensional goals such as social equity, economic benefits, and ecological protection. Water resource system simulation technology was applied for multi-objective coupling configuration. From 2005 to 2010, the research on multi-objective coupling configuration was deepened, focusing on promoting the coordinated development of water resources and economy, society and ecology, and "water allocation as the main focus" was shifted to "water quality coupling configuration" and interactive configuration of water resources stakeholders. From 2010 to 2015, research on the interaction and allocation of water resource stakeholders was deepened, focusing on strengthening the regulation of total water use, accelerating the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure through water rights trading, optimizing the allocation of industrial structure, optimizing industrial water use structure, and improving water efficiency. From 2015 to 2022, the research on optimizing the allocation of industrial structure was deepened, focusing on addressing the challenges of climate change, actively exploring methods for adaptive allocation of water resources, and enhancing the adaptive allocation capacity of water resources in river basins. In the future, it is urgent to implement the concept of "spatial balance", strengthen the rigid constraints of water resources, and promote the coordinated development of water resources and economic and social spatial balance in the basin.

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