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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337926103321

Titolo

Challenges Towards Ecological Sustainability in China : An Interdisciplinary Perspective / / edited by Xiaojun Yang, Shijun Jiang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-03484-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages)

Disciplina

304.20951

333.720951

Soggetti

Environmental geography

Ecology 

Hydrology

Sustainable development

Remote sensing

Environmental Geography

Ecology

Hydrology/Water Resources

Sustainable Development

Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Geography and Ecological Sustainability -- 2. Ecological Security Assessment -- 3. From Urban Remote Sensing to Urban Sensing -- 4. Green Development Strategies for Shanxi Province, China -- 5. Lessons for the Future from Perspectives of the Last Great Global Warming -- 6. Soil Security Utilization and Spatial Regulation in the Pearl River Delta, China -- 7. Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta and its Impact on Flooding -- 8. Impacts of Landscape Configuration on Non-Point Pollution Process at the Watershed Level -- 9. Water Resource Utilization and Sustainable Ecosystem Management in Some Critical Areas along the Silk Road -- 10. Contribution of Groundwater to Ecosystem Integrity in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas -- 11. Nutrients in Groundwater and Associated Processes in the Coastal Zone of the Pearl



River Delta, China -- 12. Remote Sensing-Based Monitoring of Some Critical Water Indicators along High-Polluted Coasts in Guangdong Province, China -- 13. Current State of China's Xuwen Coral Reef Ecological Health -- 14. Monitoring Anthropogenic Disturbance with Benthic Macroinvertebrates and their Isotopic Compositions in a Typical Subtropical River -- 15. Epilithic Diatom Biogeography and its Implications to Ecological Conditions of Brooks in South China -- 16. Biodiversity of the Harmful Benthic Dinoflagellates in the Tropical Waters of the South China Sea -- 17. Coastal Environmental Bioremediation and Seaweed Resource Utilization.

Sommario/riassunto

This book includes a selection of the best papers presented at the Jinan Forum on Geography and Ecological Sustainability held in Guangzhou, China, from 17 to 19 February 2017, as well as several invited papers. It discusses concepts, methods, and applications in geography and ecology with an emphasis on various issues challenging ecological sustainability in China. Chapters are written by leading scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines including geography, ecology, environmental science and policy, and economics. Case studies are predominantly drawn from Southern China, where nearly four decades of dramatic urbanization has caused economic and ecological strains on land and people. This book will appeal to a wide readership including researchers, upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals in the fields of sustainability science, geography, ecology, and environmental science and policy.