Restoration and development of the degraded Loess Plateau, China [electronic resource] / Atsushi Tsunekawa, Guobin Liu, Norikazu Yamanaka, Sheng Du, editors.

This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and desertification problems. Supported by a rapidly developing Chinese economy and the dissemination of effective te...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Ecological research monographs.
Other Authors: Tsunekawa, Atsushi, 1960- (Editor of compilation)
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer, [2014]
Series:Ecological research monographs.
Subjects:
Land degradation > China > Loess Plateau.
Desertification > China > Loess Plateau.
Desertification > Control > China > Loess Plateau.
Online Access:
Springer English/International eBooks 2014 - Full Set: 2014 (Springer Link)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 1. Location, geology and landforms of the Loess Plateau / Mei-Jie Yan, Qiu-Yu He, Norikazu Yamanaka and Sheng Du
  • 2. Climate of the Loess Plateau / Reiji Kimura and Naru Takayama
  • 3. Soils on the Loess Plateau / Sadahiro Yamamoto and Tsuneyoshi Endo
  • 4. Vegetation of the Loess Plateau / Norikazu Yamanaka, Qing-Chun Hou and Sheng Du
  • 5. Agriculture on the Loess Plateau / Ping An, Tomoe Inoue, Mingqing Zheng, A. Erginya Eneji and Shinobu Inanaga
  • 6. Soil erosion in the Loess Plateau Region of China / Fenli Zheng and Bin Wang
  • 7. Irrigated agriculture and salinization / Katsuyuki Shimizu, Shen-Li Yang and Yoshinobu Kitamura
  • 8. Land use change and deforestation on the Loess Plateau / Jing-Feng He, Jin-Hong Guan and Wen-Hui Zhang
  • 9. Comprehensive Chinese government policies to combat desertification / Zhan-Bin Li, Peng Li, Ping-Ping Huang and Xiao-June Liu
  • 10. Grain-for-green policy and its achievements / Ji-Jun Wang, Zhi-De Jiang and Zi-Lan Xia
  • 11. Poverty alleviation projects through integrated ecological management supported by the World Bank: case study of the Yanhe River Basin / Puling Liu, Yi Zhang and Yongqing Ma
  • 12. Policies and measures of Chinese local government on grain-for-green policy and desertification control / Yin-Li Liang, An-Rong Luo and Lan Mu
  • 13. Monitoring regional desertification / Reiji Kimura
  • 14. Countermeasures to prevent water erosion in the Loess Plateau of China / Juying Jiao
  • 15/ Secondary salinization and its countermeaures / Yoshino Kitamura, Sheng-Li Yang and Katsuyuki Shimizu
  • 16. Enhancing drought resistance of plants using wheat as a test crop / Xi-Ping Deng
  • 17. Vegetation restoration on Loess Plateau / Kyoichi Otsuki, Norikazu Yamanaka and Sheng Du
  • 18. Recent changes on the Loess Plateau: land resource development and rapid urbanization / Ming-Quan Lü, Zi-Lan Xia and Ji-Jun Wang
  • 19. Future development-related challenges on the Loess Plateau / Guobin Liu, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Xiaohu Dang, and Sheng Du.