Optimal thresholds of urban economic development and urbanization under scarce water resources in arid northwest China
水资源约束下西北干旱区城市经济发展与城市化阈值

Under the constraint of water resource, the threshold for urbanization level in arid area refers to the utmost portion of nonagricultural population transformed from agricultural population in the total population. It is reached by constructing economic capabilities to accommodate a certain amount of transformed nonagricultural population while ensuring certain speed and the scale of economic development and basic environmental construction. This paper, using the arid area of Hexi Corridor in Gansu province...