Paper
Coupling Analysis of the Oasis Stability at Different Spatio-temporal Scales
- Authors:
- Hongyun Zhang; Jianlin Li
- Abstract
- At different spatio-temporal scales, the working mechanisms of oasis stability, control goals, and approaches are different. In the paper, 3 scales of oasis system are divided: (1) a small-scale, with a temporal unit of decade and a spatial unit of oasis patch; (2) a middle-scale, with a temporal unit of century and a spatial unit of basin; (3) a large-scale, with a temporal unit of millennium and a spatial unit of administrative region. As a complex system of dissipative structures, oasis systems evolve under forces of self- and other-organizational processes. At different spatio-temporal scales coupling relations of them are different too. We analysis coupling relations between self- and other-organizational processes focused on small-scales and middle-scales. At small-scales, the coupling of the two processes embodies the coupling of scientific policies, advanced methods and approaches, and the environment and water resources in oasis patches. At middle-scales, the coupling of the two processes embodies macro management of the oasis in the administrative region with a unit of basin.
- Keywords
- oasis; stability;spatio-temporal scales; coupling
- StartPage
- 48
- EndPage
- 52
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