Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The evolution of human population distance to water in the USA from 1790 to 2010

  • Yu Fang,
  • James W. Jawitz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08366-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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There are dynamic and complex interactions between population and water resources. Here the authors studied the spatio-temporal relationship between human and water resources in conterminous US and found that dynamic human distance to water reflects the changing societal reliance on adjacency to major rivers.