TY - JOUR AU - AB - water Article Drag Effect of Water Consumption on Urbanization—A Case Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2000 to 2015 1 2 3 , 1 , 1 3 Min An , Van Butsic , Weijun He *, Zhaofang Zhang *, Teng Qin , Zhengwei Huang and Liang Yuan Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China; anmin@hhu.edu.cn (M.A.); qtblue@126.com (T.Q.) Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA; vanbutsic@berkeley.edu College of Economics & Management, Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China; zhengweihuang@ctgu.edu.cn (Z.H.),liangyuan@hhu.edu.cn(L.Y.) * Correspondence: weijunhe@ctgu.edu.cn (W.H.), zackzhang@hhu.edu.cn (Z.Z.); Tel.: +86-071-769-09773 (W.H.) Received: 5 July 2018; Accepted: 15 August 2018; Published: 22 August 2018 Abstract: Urbanization is an engine of economic development, but this process is often constrained by increasingly scarce water resources. A model predicting the drag effect of water consumption on urbanization would be useful for future planning for sustainable water resource utilization and economic growth. Using panel data from 11 provinces in China’s Yangtze River economic belt (YREB) from 2000 to 2015, we apply Romer ’s growth drag theory with spatial econometric models to quantitatively analyze the drag effect of water consumption on urbanization. The results show the following. (1) TI - Drag Effect of Water Consumption on Urbanization—A Case Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2000 to 2015 JF - Water DO - 10.3390/w10091115 DA - 2018-08-22 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/drag-effect-of-water-consumption-on-urbanization-a-case-study-of-the-BWi7nNhY6a DP - DeepDyve ER -