TY - JOUR TI - Assessment of regional water resource carrying capacity by the connection number of set pair analysis AU - Jin Da-Tang AU - Zhou Ting AU - Yang Xiao-Hua AU - Lu Yu AU - Wang Kai-Wen JN - Thermal Science PY - 2024 VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 2287 EP - 2294 PT - Article AB - In order to evaluate regional water resource carrying capacity, the subtraction set pair analysis is adopted to calculate the connection number, and an evaluation model of the regional water resource carrying capacity based on quadratic subtraction set pair potential is established. The model is applied to assess the water resource carrying capacity of 16 cities in Anhui province, China, 2015. The results show that the water resource carrying capacity was sever throughout the province in 2015. Specifically, the carrying capacity in southern part of An-hui province was better than that in the northern part. The main factor of water resource carrying status varied in different cities.