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Water resources exploitation is always very important during the whole oasis urbanization in arid zone, adapting with urban development in between contradiction and coordination. Taking Urumqi City as a case, co-adaptation of water exploitation and urban growth is imitated by interactions between water supply and oasis city’s expands on population, economy and environment. In different urbanization stages, the co-adaptation can be represented differently, which can be summarized by five phases: elementary coordination, expanding coordination, expanding contradiction, adapting contradiction, and adapting coordination. Cost of water consumption, proportion of water use and efficiency are the main influence factors to help the co-adaptation.
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Du, H., Zhang, X. & Wang, B. Co-adaptation between modern oasis urbanization and water resources exploitation: A case of Urumqi. CHINESE SCI BULL 51 (Suppl 1), 189–195 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-006-8225-9
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