Combating Desertification in China

Author: Wang Lixian
Language: English
Published on: 1996-01
Hardcover

China is one of the countries suffering from the most serious disasters of desertification in the world. For existence and development, the Chinese people living in the desertified regions have caried on a tenacious struggle against the disasters of desertification for a long time and accumulated rich experience.

This book is designed to help the international institutes amd colleagues concerned understand the conditions, achievements and experience of combating desertification in China so as to promote international cooperation and exchange in combating desertification and contribute to the implementation of the .

1. Preface
2. The Experience of Combating Desertification in China
3. Biodiversity in the Drylands of China
4. Water Resources in Drylands of China
5. Theoretical Basis and Index System of Sustainable Waershed Management
6. The Main Experience of Small Watershed Management in China
7. Application of Regression Analysis to the Prediction of Average Annual yield of Silt
8. Torrent Control in North China
9. Application of Regression Analysis to the Prediction of Quantity of Deposited Sediment on the Torrent Bed
10. The Planning method of Small Watershed Management
11. Investigations of Surface Runoff and Erosion by Rainfall Simulation in the Loess Area of China
12. The Influence of Forest on Torrent Control in the Mountain Area of Beijing
13. Development and application of the Information System of Watershed Management
14. Torrent Classification and Mapping of Hazard zones in Mountain Area of beijing in China
15. Torrent Classification and Hazard Zone Mapping with GIS in China
16. Soil and Water Conservation of loess Plateau in China
17. Techniques for Rehabilitation of Sylvo-pastoral Ecosystems in Arid zones
18. Sylvo-pastoral systems in China
19. The Socio-economic factors in Desertification and its control
20. Wind Tunnel Modelling of Shifting Sand Control for oil field development in desert area of China
21. The growth of man-made forests of Haloxylon ammodendron and their soil water contents in the minqin desert region, Gansu province, China
22. Erosion Control function of vegetation
23. New trend of the United Nations Combating Desertification