Publications

ABSESpy: An agent-based modeling framework for social-ecological systems

ABSESpy is a novel agent-based modeling (ABM) framework that facilitates socio-ecological systems (SES) research. It serves as an …

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Chentai Jiao, Elías José Mantilla

ABSESpy: An agent-based modeling framework for social-ecological systems

Quantifying the Effects of Institutional Shifts on Water Governance in the Yellow River Basin: A Social-ecological System Perspective

We employ a Differenced Synthetic Control method to assess the impacts of the institutional shifts. Our analysis suggests that the 87-WAS unexpectedly increased water use by 5.75%, while the 98-UBR successfully reduced water use as anticipated.

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Kevin Wang, Yikai Li, Yaping Wang

Quantifying the Effects of Institutional Shifts on Water Governance in the Yellow River Basin: A Social-ecological System Perspective

Identifying regime transitions for water governance at the Yellow River Basin, China

In the Yellow River Basin, the underlying causes of regime shifts were increasing water supply and demand before the governance transformation and re-allocation and regulation after the change. The IWGI offers a comprehensive and straightforward approach to linking water governance regimes to sustainability, providing valuable insights into hydrosocial transitions.

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Xutong Wu, Yongping Wei, Graeme Cumming, Yue Qin, Xilin Wu, Bojie Fu

Identifying regime transitions for water governance at the Yellow River Basin, China

Institutional impacts on the evolution of the Yellow River, China: a perspective from socio-hydrological modelling

An agent-based model was developed around the Yellow River’s most far-reaching water quota institution during the past half century, considering how factors such as human behaviour and environmental change have combined with the institutional shifts to lead to changes in the Yellow River’s water use.

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu

Institutional impacts on the evolution of the Yellow River, China: a perspective from socio-hydrological modelling

Decreased Virtual Water Outflows from the Yellow River Basin Are Increasingly Critical to China

The temporal increase of the complexity index indicated that the virtual water outflows (VWFs) from the YRB were becoming increasingly critical to China; i.e. the ability of YRB to produce crops boosted the difficulty of its water being replaced by water exporting from other basins.

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Xutong Wu, Yongyuan Huang, Bojie Fu

Decreased Virtual Water Outflows from the Yellow River Basin Are Increasingly Critical to China

Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses

SDG interactions showed nonlinear changes as the SDG Index increased:SDGs were both more positively and more negatively connected at low and high sustainable development levels, but they were clustered into more isolated positive connection groups at middle levels.

Xutong Wu, Bojie Fu, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Yingjie Li, Zhenci Xu, Yongping Wei, Jianguo Liu

Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses

Ecological Restoration Intensifies Evapotranspiration in the Kubuqi Desert

Understanding how ecological restoration affects the regional water balance is important for scientific desertification management. Using remote sensing satellite images and meteorological data, we analyzed the impacts of ecological restoration on water resources in the Kubuqi Desert during 1986–2017.

Peng Chen, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Yijia Wang, Yaping Wang, Dexin Gao, Zidong Li

Ecological Restoration Intensifies Evapotranspiration in the Kubuqi Desert

The contribution of ecosystem restoration to sustainable development goals in Asian drylands: A literature review

After reviewing the social-ecological effects of 23 ecosystem restoration programs in Asia’s drylands, we find that these programs mainly contribute to SDGs synergistically, but the tradeoffs between social-ecological effects still exists.

Ying Yao, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Yijia Wang, Shuang Song

The contribution of ecosystem restoration to sustainable development goals in Asian drylands: A literature review

A review of community-based socio-ecological system adaptation pathways

In the context of global change, the community, as the basic unit of a social-ecological system, is facing both potential or existing shocks and trends in the structure and function of the system. Community-based adaptation (CBA) provides an effective way for communities to mitigate change and even seize the opportunity for transformation.

Yijia Wang, Yanxu Liu, Shuang Song, Ying Yao

A review of community-based socio-ecological system adaptation pathways

Research Progress of the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystem Nexus

Based on a review of recent international frameworks for Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystem （WFEE） nexus construction，we found that there was a need to integrate the social governance processes of water，food and energy resource sectors from the perspective of ecosystem services.

Yijia Wang, Yanxu Liu, Shuang Song, Bojie Fu

Research Progress of the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystem Nexus

Threshold of Vapour– Pressure Deficit Constraint on Light Use Efficiency Varied with Soil Water Content

We quantified the relative roles of VPD and SMC in limiting LUE and analysed the interactions among VPD, SMC and LUE using data from CO2 and water flux stations and weather stations along a climatic gradient in the Heihe River Basin, China.

Dexin Gao, Shuai Wang, Zidong Li, Fangli Wei, Peng Chen, Shuang Song, Yaping Wang, Lixin Wang, Bojie Fu

Threshold of Vapour– Pressure Deficit Constraint on Light Use Efficiency Varied with Soil Water Content

Long-term and seasonal variation of open-surface water bodies in the Yellow River Basin during 1990–2020

During these 30 years, YRB surface waters were characterized by spatial and seasonal heterogeneities. The open-surface water coverage in the upper and middle reaches of the YRB was 8.74‰ and 4.24‰, respectively, less than the average coverage in the whole YRB of 9.45‰. Surface water area was significant larger in flood seasons than in dry seasons, while during 1990–2020, the surface water area increased by 27.5% in the flood season and by 58.9% in the dry season, reaching 7239.2 km2 (flood season) and 6654.8 km2 (dry season) in 2020.

Chentai Jiao, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Bojie Fu

Long-term and seasonal variation of open-surface water bodies in the Yellow River Basin during 1990–2020

The responses of Spinifex littoreus to sand burial on the coastal area of Pingtan Island, Fujian Province, South China

The adaptive capacity of psammophytes to sand burial is crucial for the ecological restoration of coastal dune systems. The responses of Spinifex littoreus to different sand burial depths and levels were examined on the coast of Pingtan Island, Fujian Province, South China.

Shuang Song, Jianhui Du, Qirui Wu, Mingyang Ni, Yijia Wang, Yingling Zhang

The responses of Spinifex littoreus to sand burial on the coastal area of Pingtan Island, Fujian Province, South China

Improving Representation of Collective Memory in Socio-hydrological Models and New Insights into Flood Risk Management

Collective memory plays a controlling role in adaptation to potential flood risks, by learning from past disasters. Based on survey data, we suggest that using the Universal Decay Model (UDM) proposed by previous researchers provides better fitting results for the decay of flooding memory.

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Yuxiang Dong, Yanxu Liu, Haibin Chen, Yaping Wang

Improving Representation of Collective Memory in Socio-hydrological Models and New Insights into Flood Risk Management

Achieving a Fit between Social and Ecological Systems in Drylands for Sustainability

By drawing on the cases of SES management in dryland areas, we propose three distinct but complementary approaches to promote SES fit based on comprehensive and systematic analyses, which can be summarized as structural, dynamic, and scale approaches.

Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Junze Zhang, Xutong Wu, Bojie Fu

Achieving a Fit between Social and Ecological Systems in Drylands for Sustainability

Detecting Land Degradation in Southern Africa Using Time Series Segment and Residual Trend (TSS-RESTREND)

By eliminating positive effects from precipitation and including negative effects from breakpoints, TSS-RESTREND highlighted the potential overestimate of improvement by the linear regression method and the underestimate of degradation by the linear regression and RESTREND methods. These results showed that the land degradation detection with TSS-RESTREND method is useful for land conservation and restoration.

Zidong Li, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Yaping Wang, Walter Musakwa

Detecting Land Degradation in Southern Africa Using Time Series Segment and Residual Trend (TSS-RESTREND)

Sediment Transport under Increasing Anthropogenic Stress: Regime Shifts within the Yellow River, China

The Yellow River, once the world’s most sediment-rich river, has experienced dramatic regime shifts. We reanalyzed previous datasets to clarify the first historical sediment transport regime shift in the Yellow River. Our results suggest a regime shift occurred only under increased forcing from anthropogenic stresses (after 1900 AD).

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Kevin Wang, Yikai Li, Yaping Wang

Sediment Transport under Increasing Anthropogenic Stress: Regime Shifts within the Yellow River, China

Sediment Transport under Increasing Anthropogenic Stress: Regime Shifts within the Yellow River, China

The Yellow River, once the world’s most sediment-rich river, has experienced dramatic regime shifts. We reanalyzed previous datasets to clarify the first historical sediment transport regime shift in the Yellow River. Our results suggest a regime shift occurred only under increased forcing from anthropogenic stresses (after 1900 AD).

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Kevin Wang, Yikai Li, Yaping Wang

Sediment Transport under Increasing Anthropogenic Stress: Regime Shifts within the Yellow River, China

Structure Disentanglement and Effect Analysis of the Arid Riverscape Social-Ecological System Using a Network Approach

Our study demonstrated that network analysis could be one promising direction to untangle the complex SES and understand the relationship between SES structure and outcomes. We suggest comanaging the cross-boundary river and lands to further match the SES for basin sustainability.

Mengmeng Zhang, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Xiaohua Wei, Cong Wang, Shuang Song, Fangli Wei

Structure Disentanglement and Effect Analysis of the Arid Riverscape Social-Ecological System Using a Network Approach

Study on adaptive governance of social-ecological system: Progress and prospect

Adaptive governance theory is influenced by “common pool resources management”, “resilience” and “governance”, and lays a foundation for the construction of transformative governance and collaborative governance.

Shuang Song, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Haibin Chen, Yanxu Liu, Wenwu Zhao

Study on adaptive governance of social-ecological system: Progress and prospect

Diurnal variation characteristics of leaf water potential of Spinifex littoreus on the nebkhas in different succession periods on the coast of Pingtan Island，Fujian Province，China

Diurnal variation and its influencing factors of leaf water potential ( ψl ) of Spinifex littoreus on the nebkhas in two succession periods were measured on the coast of Pingtan Island, Fujian Province．

Xianji Yang, Jianhui Du, Jing Qin, Zhihua Chen, Lin Yang, Shuang Song

Diurnal variation characteristics of leaf water potential of Spinifex littoreus on the nebkhas in different succession periods on the coast of Pingtan Island，Fujian Province，China