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This chapter considers the immediate forces influencing China’s food system and food security. By immediate is meant events of the reform period, from the late 1970s to 2009. It begins by asking the question that has preoccupied specialists since the publication of Lester Brown’s Who Will Feed China? in 1995: How much arable land does China have? Is that land area sufficient to insure grain sufficiency?...
The environmental problems is very serious in China's western nationality areas, which have hindered the sustainable economic development. Due to the exceeding development and destroy on natural resources, the concept of sustainable environmental and economic development has been recognized and accepted by most countries. The article analyses the serious environmental problems and its reasons in western...
This paper has integrated the automatic monitoring system of water resources, and fully excavated the monitoring information contents, and introduced information fusion technology, and discussed and analyzed information collection and transmission and processing, and brought forward the system which has versatility and portability and scalability by using geographic information systems and databases...
Water resource is a key element of maintaining human existence, economic development and social progress. Against the background of ecological civilization, water resource is an indispensable basic strategic for urban development. As a city short of water, urban development and construction of Tianjin will be directly affected by whether they have rational development and utilization of water resources...
The coastal zone systems of Bohai Sea make a significant role in Bohai Sea region's economic development, which constitutes the Bohai economic circle support system. But with economic development, a series of pollution problems occur. This article points out Bohai Sea now has been seriously polluted and the pollution has already affected ecology. According to the present development, resources and...
Aiming at high demand of water resources and serious water pollution owing to the rapid economic development in riverside area, the paper study in optimal water resources deployment for sustainable development, through the equilibrium analysis of water supply and the coordinated development of water quality conservation. From the point of the conservation, protection of water resources, analysis the...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large. While CSR is becoming a mainstream issue for many organizations, most of the research to date addresses CSR in large businesses and there...
Since the 1980s, Chinese water environment has got worse and worse, and water pollution extended from local pollution to total watershed pollution. From the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the government recognized the seriousness of water pollution, and put the core of the prevention and cure of water pollution in Three Rivers and Three Lakes, e.i. Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River, Taihu Lake, Chaohu...
This study collecting the monitoring data for surface water quality and economic development data of Tianjin, and analyzed the water quality according to national water environmental quality standards between 1998 and 2008, it is found that Hai River and other main rivers were polluted badly except Yuqiao Reservior which is only drinking source water body. In the past two decade, economy of Tianjin...
The rapid development of economic is inseparable from the support of resources, while the huge consumption quantities of resources will inevitably lead the negative impact to the environment of mine, such as the poor environment for production of the mine, discharging the “three kinds of wastes”, geological disasters, and the destruction of environmental resources, etc. How minimize the extent of...
Northeast China is an important industrial and agricultural base. However the water in the region is relatively short. After the state strategy of revitalizing northeast old industrial base is proposed, along with the rapid economic development of those, the three northeast provinces are facing the rational development of groundwater resources, efficient utilization, optimize the allocation a comprehensive...
The traditional GDP calculation system neglects the cost of natural resources and environment. It can't effectively embodies the correlation between the economic development and the environment and resources. Practice of the Green National Economic Accounting, measuring and guiding the national economy with the index sign of Green GDP, not only can reflect the economy growth level, but also the diapason...
Central China's past economic development mode with "High Input, High Consumption, High Emission" has greatly impeded the process of it's rising. To break through the bottleneck of resources shortage and the environmental degradation, and rise early, it is necessary for Central China to base on "A Resource-Saving and Environment-Friendly Society" and the principle of sustainable...
The purpose of this document is to communicate an economic vision for Urban Economics. Solving the environmental problems associated with urbanization requires lateral thinking, or rather vertical thinking. Problems abound when considering the environmental challenges of an increasingly urban society. Among these are a decreasing vegetation cover of the soil, water absorption capacity, shade and temperature...
In recent years a high number of accidental water pollution incidents in China bring a serious threat to peoplepsilas livelihoods and health, the aquatic ecological system, economic development, and social stability. The traditional practice in water emergency management has been mainly focusing on mitigation after an incident. In fact prevention before an incident is more important than mitigation...
This paper analyzed the characteristics of Chinese water resources and developed a sustainable utilization evaluation system of water resources. Principal component analysis method was used to carry out the evaluation. The results show there is an obvious negative correlation between water resources endowment and its utilization efficiency, and a positive correlation between utilization efficiency...
This article considers the immediate forces influencing China’s food system and food security. By immediate is meant events of the reform period, from the late 1970s to 2008. It begins by asking the question that has preoccupied specialists since the publication of Lester Brown’s Who Will Feed China? in 1995: How much arable land does China have? Is that land area sufficient to insure grain sufficiency?...
The way industries are located in a region has profound impact on its environment. Urban and regional planners have been mostly concerned with locating industries for economic development. Environmental impact assessment (eia) has been their main tool for dealing with environmental issues related with industrial locations. Even the new glorified form of eia, strategic environmental assessment (sea),...
The marine litter generated as by-products of human activities and economic development enters indirectly through rivers or stream and directly through sea-based activities to the sea. It is commonly comprised of materials that degrade very slowly, such as various plastic products, polystyrene, glass, rubber, metal, wood, derelict fishing nets, wire, rope and so on. Such litter found in the water...
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