水资源脆弱性的研究进展

水资源是影响可持续发展最主要的环境因素,研究水资源的脆弱性以及气候变化对水资源脆弱性的影响关系到我国国民经济可持续发展的重大问题。文章系统地阐述了水资源脆弱性的概念、评价指标体系、研究方法、研究进展以及降低水资源脆弱性应采取的适应对策措施等。并提出今后应进一步明确水资源脆弱性的概念和研究范围,完善现有的指标体系,提高脆弱性图表的统一性和可比性以及应用高新技术开展水资源脆弱性的研究等。

Major Progress in Water Resource Vulnerability Research

Water resources are one of primary environmental factors influencing sustainable development.To study water resource vulnerability and the impact of climate change on water resource vulnerability is of great significance to the national economy sustainable development in China and has been one of the focal issues in the environmental research at present and even in the future.The conceptions,assessment index systems,research methods,and major progresses in the researches on water resource vulnerability and suitable countermeasures to decrease water resource vulnerability are systematically summarized.Some suggestions are given on the future research focuses in the area of water resource vulnerability,the existing index system perfecting,the improvement of the unity and comparability of vulnerability maps,and the application of high and new technology to water resource vulnerability research.