Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.025

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	Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau
	Wang, Kaibo 1; Deng, Lei 2; Shangguan, Zhouping 2; Chen, Yiping 1; Lin, Xin 3
通讯作者	Chen, Yiping(lifesci@ieecas.cn) ; Lin, Xin(xinlin@chd.edu.cn)
	2021-11-01
发表期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
ISSN	1462-9011
卷号	125 页码:126-134
摘要	The eco-environment of semi-arid regions is extremely sensitive and vulnerable to climate change and human activities. The realization of sustainability of eco-environments has long been a key issue. Consequently, we analysed the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) to identify solutions to the sustainable development of such regions. We first reviewed the eco-environmental changes in the CLP and discussed the impacts of human activities over the past 3000 years, and then summarized previous experiences on the protection and restoration of degraded eco-environments. Our study indicates that the increasing demand for cultivated land has led to the destruction of vegetation and subsequent worsening of soil erosion on the CLP, which in turn, has led to an increase in floods in the Yellow River basin. However, many positive measures, such as slope cropland abandonment and afforestation have been demonstrated to be effective in improving the eco-environment via reducing soil erosion, and decreasing sediment input and flood disasters in the Yellow River in recent decades. Nonetheless, emerging problems such as water shortage, food insecurity, rapid urban development, and over-exploitation of energy resources hinder the sustainable development of the eco-environment in the CLP. Given the historical and present eco-environmental situations of the CLP, we provide suggestions for the sustainable development of both the eco-environment and social economy, which could serve as guidelines for eco-environmental design and government policy-making in semi-arid regions globally.
关键词	Sustainable development Eco-environmental change Human activities Chinese Loess Plateau Semi-arid regions
DOI	10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.025
关键词[WOS]	ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES ; WATER CONSERVATION ; YELLOW-RIVER ; SOIL ; IMPACT ; REVEGETATION
收录类别	SCI ; SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[42041005] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41671511] ; West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XAB2018A01] ; Youth Research Fund of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences[QNJJ201809]
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Youth Research Fund of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000704478000001
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
引用统计	被引频次：14[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/17095
专题	生态环境研究室
通讯作者	Chen, Yiping; Lin, Xin
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian 710061, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 2.Northwest A&F Univ, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming Loess P, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 3.Changan Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Resources, Xian 710054, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Kaibo,Deng, Lei,Shangguan, Zhouping,et al. Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY,2021,125:126-134.
APA	Wang, Kaibo,Deng, Lei,Shangguan, Zhouping,Chen, Yiping,&Lin, Xin.(2021).Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau.ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY,125,126-134.
MLA	Wang, Kaibo,et al."Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau".ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY 125(2021):126-134.