Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China

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Size: 230 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1992

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Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Research Council
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This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it.
Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China's grasslands to overgrazing and excessive cultivation of marginal areas and discuss measures to limit ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Introduction	1-6	(skim)
Part I Overview	7-8	(skim)
1 The Grazinglands of Northern China: Ecology, Society, and Land Use	9-36	(skim)
Part II Chinese Literature on Grassland Studies	37-38	(skim)
2 Northern China	39-54	(skim)
3 The Northeast	55-66	(skim)
4 Xilingele	67-84	(skim)
5 Central Inner Mongolia	85-92	(skim)
6 Gansu and Qinghai	93-108	(skim)
7 Xinjiang	109-120	(skim)
8 Social Sciences	121-132	(skim)
Part III Chinese Institutions for Grassland Studies	133-134	(skim)
9 Beijing	135-142	(skim)
10 The Northeast	143-148	(skim)
11 Inner Mongolia	149-162	(skim)
12 Gansu and Qinghai	163-174	(skim)
13 Xinjiang	175-180	(skim)
Part IV Summary and Analysis	181-182	(skim)
14 Key Issues in Grassland Studies	183-198	(skim)
Index	199-214	(skim)

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This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it.
Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China's grasslands to overgrazing and excessive cultivation of marginal areas and discuss measures to limit the damage. The book gives its view on the Chinese approach to the study of grasslands and the relevance of this activity in China to global scientific concerns.

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