TITLE:
A Study of the Spatial Relevance between Economic Development and Water Resources Utilization in the Upper Reaches of Minjiang River Basin
AUTHORS:
Chunlei Song, Bing Zhao
KEYWORDS:
Water Resources, Spatial Correlation, Moran Index, Water Consumption
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.7 No.3,
July
17,
2019
ABSTRACT: By adopting the methods of GIS and Spatial Correlation Analysis, from the
perspective of the spatial scale, the author analyzed the spatial relevance between
all the counties’ GDP and their water resources utilization in the upper
reaches of Minjiang River Basin. The research shows that, firstly, their GDP
and water resources utilization distribute disproportionally. Secondly, their
GDP of secondary industry has definite correlation in spatial distribution and
certain degree of spatial aggregation, at the same time, which is positively related
to water consumption in spatial correlation. After analyzing the correlation of
GDP and water resources utilization, it is found that the total water
consumption and water consumption of the secondary industry are positively
correlated with GDP spatially, while the GDP of the primary industry and the
tertiary industry are negatively correlated with water consumption. The scarcity
of available water resources is a key restricting factor for the economic
development of western China. Due to the limitations of data collection, there
may be some deviations in the final data analysis.