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Sustainable building and planning should response to issues come from climate change. After clarifying the characteristics of nature background of Taiwan's built-environment, the effect of climate change on building and planning were examined. By analyzing the limits of primary energy resource constraint, and its effect on the paths of Taiwan long run energy policy, a theoretical concept and framework...
Rangeland protection and climate change prevention and adaptation share common goals. Rangeland protection funding should be used for climate change prevention and adaptation, and climate change countermeasures support sustainable development of Tibet. Tibet's rangelands account for about 69.1% of the total land area in the region. As one of the major terrestrial ecosystems, Rangelands resources play...
In recent years, climate change has become a hot issue around the world, for many, particularly the forest had an important impact. Future global warming will continue, extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, and thus many aspects of China's forestry development of the impact. Forestry in mitigating climate change has an important role and special status. Heilongjiang Province...
Spatial and temporal mismatches between coarse resolution output of global climate models (GCMs) and fine resolution data requirements of crop models are the major obstacles for assessing the site-specific climatic impacts of climate change on the production of winter wheat. Based on the output of IPCC AR4 model and observation data, statistical downscaling of precipitation, minimum temperature, and...
Global climate change is having a profound impact on the human well-being and development, which has become a great concern and challenge for the world-wide governments. Industry, as the most important trade that consumes energy and resources, is our main direction to achieve the goals of reducing carbon intensity emission. This paper first analyzes the opportunities as well as challenges which the...
As the population of China becomes more urbanized, cities will continue to expand, unknowingly igniting the multi-dimensional vulnerability of human settlements. Sustainable urban settlement requires serious manifestation in the form of low-carbon city construction. The growing urbanization trend, especially in mountain areas and in coastal areas, makes the search for policy solutions acute. Climate...
Climate change and global environment has become one of the most popular topics. Our understanding of the Earth is expanding for geoinformation technological developments. Scientists, developers and many others have used geoinformation technology to better understand global environment change. Remotely-sensed radiative transfer models, quantitative retrieval theory, data acquisition technology and...
Detailed description of land use/land cover change of China during the past hundred years not only help us understand the impacts of human-induced land use/land cover change on climate change and carbon cycles, but also reflect the true role of land use/land cover change of China in the global climate change. Hence, this article tries to propose a methodological framework on the reconstruction of...
Understanding of the pattern of agricultural drought and the way it responses to climate change in winter wheat growth season is critical for crop production in China. The remotely sensed MSAVI and NDWI time series and daily meteorological elements for the main growth season and four separate growth stages of winter wheat from 2000 to 2010 were used to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution...
Soil moisture is an essential variable of the climate system. It controls the mass and energy transfer between the land surface and atmosphere. It also involves in a number of feedbacks at various scales, and plays a major role in climate change projections. In this paper, we retrieved 20 years daily soil moisture over Africa continent from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I). Climate change tendency...
The Shandong southwest area is located on the fracture zone connecting Shandong hills and north china plain. Since Holocene, affected by development of Huanghe alluvial fan, Zhanghe alluvial fan and Hutuhe alluvial fan, a coastal lagoon was formed in the low-lying area of Huanghe alluvial fan. Under the influence of the development of Huanghe alluvial fan, climate change in north china and human activity,...
China is a beautiful country with hundreds of thousands of mountains spreading over the country. Climate change poses a potentially major challenge to social and economic development in China mountain areas. Development is successful if it reduces the vulnerability of mountain areas and poor people to existing climate variability, while also building in the potential to anticipate and react to further...
The climate change is both environment and development issue which is challenging the sustainable development of our human society. Under the background that the international community is actively responding to the climate change and converting to the low-carbon economy with characteristics of low energy consumption, low emission and low pollution, as a fast-developing country, China must transform...
This study reported the spatio-temporal variability of terrestrial net primary production (NPP) in the lower-middle reaches of Yangtze River from 2000 to 2006. The impact of climate change was also described. According to the analysis results, mean NPP of this region during 7 years was 535.8 gCm−2yr−1, which was higher than that of the nation during the same period. It was found that NPP showed great...
Two graphic methods (double mass curve (DMC) and flow duration curve (FDC)) were applied to analyze the monthly flow of Yongcui River basin including the Liangshui National Nature Reserve. The results showed that the factor (s) other than precipitation affected monthly flow insignificant. The high flows (0 to 50 percentiles) of monthly flow were more affected by variation of precipitation. The low...
The impact of temperature and precipitation to Nanjing manufacturing economy was analyzed by using TRANSLOG model. The results of model estimated by randge regression method show that the average boundary output elasticity of temperature and precipitation factor to the manufacturing undulation output value are −0.1813 and −0.0683 respectively, which means both of temperature and precipitation have...
Environmental changes influence water circulation by the ways of climate change, land use change and water demands. In order to research each factor how to affect the water circulation in Hun River Basin, such as evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, direct runoff and groundwater runoff, a distributed water cycle model was developed. Based on scenario analysis and credible model results, the research...
Agricultural water shortage is intensified climate warming. Treated water induces river pollution remain serious while agriculture uses high quality surface water for irrigation. To solve the contradictory, the article posed two tactics. The first tactic was that the treated water was straightway discharged into farmland irrigation canal or agricultural water storage facilities. The second tactic...
Under global climate change, how to adapt climate change and tackle ecological problem is becoming an urgent issue for agricultural production over the world. As a key factor for sustainable development of regional agriculture and ecosystem, carrying out studies on agricultural structural adjustment and adaptive measures are very important for decreasing the adverse impacts of climate change. Transforming...
Northwestern China has one of the most complex climates due to the complex terrain and complex climate change in China. The environment there is sensitive to the regional climate change, and is also very vulnerable to the global climate change. The present study examines the spatial and temporal variability and trends of precipitation during 1959–2008 in Northwestern China. The methods used include...
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