Land degradation China is one of the countries with the most serious desertification in the world. At present, China’s desertified land covers an area of 2.64 million square kilometers, accounting for 27% of the country’s land area. The land desertification area expanded by 1500km2 in the 1950s and 2100km2 in the 1970s. From 1994 to …
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China’s per capita water resources are about 2,300m3, which is equivalent to 1/4 of the world’s per capita and 1/5 of that of the United States. It is one of the 13 water-poor countries with very few per capita water resources in the world. China’s agriculture is short of 30 billion cubic meters of water …
In the quest for a more harmonious relationship between development and the environment, it has been recognized that there are three interrelated components of human influence, which can be thought of as the product of population, consumption, and technological factors. Impact on the environment = population × consumption × technology. In China, the demographic factor …