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Characteristics of Environmental Impact for Wheat Production and Their Decoupling Relationship in Oasis Irrigation Area Based on Water and Carbon Footprints—Taking Shache Irrigation District in Yarkant River Basin of Xinjiang, China as an Example(PDF)

《地球科学与环境学报》[ISSN:1672-6561/CN:61-1423/P]

Issue:
2023年第04期
Page:
869-880
Research Field:
环境与可持续发展专刊
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Title:
Characteristics of Environmental Impact for Wheat Production and Their Decoupling Relationship in Oasis Irrigation Area Based on Water and Carbon Footprints—Taking Shache Irrigation District in Yarkant River Basin of Xinjiang, China as an Example
Author(s):
LIU Xin-yu1;  WANG Yi1*;  HE Bin2;  LUO Ping-ping3; 4;  CAO Cheng-lin1
(1. School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China; 2. Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China; 3. School of Water and Environment, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, Shaanxi, China; 4. Xi'an Monitoring, Modelling and Early Warning of Watershed Spatial Hydrology International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, Shaanxi, China)
Keywords:
water footprint;  carbon footprint;  wheat production;  decoupling index;  influencing factor;  trend analysis;  Shache irrigation district;  Xinjiang
PACS:
S181; S271
DOI:
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Abstract:
Agriculture sector is an important contributor of global water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, unreasonable crop cultivation system play negative impact on the ecosystem and food security. The wheat production development of Shache irrigation district in Yarkant river basin, Xinjiang from 1990 to 2020 was examined; the characteristics of water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with wheat production were evaluated in terms of water and carbon footprints, and their influencing factors were investigated by correlation analysis method; furthermore, the dynamic relationship between wheat production and environmental impact were explored by means of Tapio decoupling model, so that the potential environmental risk during the wheat production was revealed. The results show that water and carbon footprints of wheat production in Shache irrigation district fluctuate and increase from 1990 to 2020, both of them turn into significant upward trends around 2008(P<0.05); blue water footprint, which means irrigation water consuming, accounts for the largest proportion of water footprint(65%); carbon footprints caused by agricultural inputs and farmland NO2 emissions have the same multi-year average amount, but the former has grown over time; the main factors affecting the changes of water and carbon footprints are agricultural production inputs driven by policies and development demands; among them, the expansion of wheat planting area is significantly related to increase water and carbon footprints, and nitrogen fertilizer application is a major contributor for increasing grey water footprint and carbon footprint; although electricity for irrigation can control the growth of water footprint, but leads to the growth of carbon footprint; according to decoupling indexes between wheat yield and water and carbon footprints, the threat of high-resource consumption and high-environmental cost from wheat production still assignable, and green development faces challenges. Therefore, in order to realize the sustainable development of regional wheat production, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of resource utilization and concentrate on optimizing agricultural practices to alleviate the environmental stress caused by wheat production.

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