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Poverty, population and environmental degradation in China.
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The authors review China's success in controlling environmental degradation through leadership, environmental policies, and institutional capacity and suggest that environmental progress is best achieved indirectly by poverty alleviation, market integration, and population control.About:
This article is published in Food Policy.The article was published on 1997-06-01. It has received 136 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental degradation & Population.read more
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Restoring Soil Quality to Mitigate Soil Degradation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a strategy to minimize soil erosion, create positive organic carbon (SOC) and N budgets, enhance activity and species diversity of soil biota (micro, meso, and macro), and improve structural stability and pore geometry.
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Soil erosion, conservation, and eco-environment changes in the loess plateau of china
Guangju Zhao,Guangju Zhao,Xingmin Mu,Xingmin Mu,Zhongming Wen,Zhongming Wen,Fei Wang,Fei Wang,Peng Gao,Peng Gao +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the historical variation of climate, vegetation cover, and environment changes in order to understand the causes of severe soil erosion in Loess Plateau, and found that climate changes and vegetation cover were the dominant natural factors influencing the soil erosion rates during the Holocene.
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Building new countryside in China: A geographical perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the potential factors influencing the building of a new countryside in China, and provided a critical discussion of the problems and implications concerning carrying out this campaign, from a geographical perspective.
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Water-energy nexus: A review of methods and tools for macro-assessment
Dai Jiangyu,Shiqiang Wu,Guoyi Han,Josh Weinberg,Xinghua Xie,Xiufeng Wu,Xingqiang Song,Benyou Jia,Xue Wanyun,Yang Qianqian +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of water-energy nexus analysis is presented, which provides a depository summary of a wide range of current existing methods and tools for water energy nexus analysis, and discusses these approaches based on their main purposes.
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Developing a decision support tool for China's re-vegetation program: Simulating regional impacts of afforestation on average annual streamflow in the Loess Plateau
Tim R. McVicar,Lingtao Li,Tom Van Niel,Lu Zhang,Rui Li,Qinke Yang,Xiaoping Zhang,Xingmin Mu,Zhongming Wen,Wenzhao Liu,Yong’An Zhao,ZhiHong Liu,Peng Gao +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, a decision support tool called ReVegetation Impacts on Hydrology (ReVegIH) has been developed to increase the awareness of the hydrologylanduse change implications in the region, which provides a means for users to determine where priority (and target) re-vegetation activities should be undertaken; ascertain what species are suitable for a specific location; and simulate the related hydrological impact on an average annual basis.
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Technological change: rediscovering the engine of productivity growth in China's rural economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of the role of technology versus that of institutional innovation in China's rural economy is analyzed. But, the authors focus on measuring the importance of technology vs. institutional innovation and do not consider the impact of decollectivization.
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China's environmental crisis : an inquiry into the limits of national development
TL;DR: In this paper, a path-breaking blend of history, sociology, political science and economics argues that the key factor determining the quality of race relations is economic: when economic equality spreads so do social and political equality.
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Environmental Stress and Grain Yields in China
Jikun Huang,Scott Rozelle +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 77, no. 4, November 1995 has published a survey of the state of the art in agri-business.
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Implementing environmental policy in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the institutional context of environmental policy implementation in China Environmental Impact Assessment The Three Synchronizations Pollutant Discharge Fees Local EPB Growth and Development: Strategies Used by the Shenzhen EPB Local Level EPBs and their Subsidiaries: Relationships and Finances within the Foshan EPB Environmental Protection with Chinese Characteristics Bibliography Index