Overview
- Integrates and systematically assesses China’s ecological restoration programs
- Covers a range of topics from land use change, carbon/erosion dynamics to income/employment effects
- Couples natural and human processes
- Uses datasets derived from multiple sources and scales and innovative modelling techniques
- Fills an important gap of international knowledge
- Approaches and findings are pertinent to other parts of the world
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
China has been undertaking unprecedented ecological restoration efforts to deal with its problems of soil erosion, flooding, dust storms, and habitat loss. While there have been studies of these efforts, questions remain concerning whether they have been effectively implemented, what their induced socioeconomic and ecological impacts are, and how their performance can be improved.
Tackling these important questions in an integrated manner, “An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs” is extraordinary for its broad coverage and methodological rigor. It provides a substantial improvement over the conventional approach of simply reporting projects undertaken and accepting uncritically the government assessment, and thus fills an important knowledge gap of the restoration efforts being implemented upon a variety of ecosystems in China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs
Editors: Runsheng Yin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2655-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2654-5Published: 14 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9117-6Published: 29 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2655-2Published: 14 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 261
Topics: Applied Ecology, Ecology, Sustainable Development, Ecosystems, Forestry, Life Sciences, general