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For quite a long time, man has been exploiting natural resources without restraint, and forest felling in particular, has brought about a series of problems for the global ecosystem, such as serious soil erosion, exacerbating greenhouse effect, and sharp decline of biodiversity. Such global environmental issues are growing severer day-by-day, bringing grave threats to the existence and development of mankind, making it difficult for us to proceed with economic production, and causing great economic loss to human society.
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Wang, T., Li, F. (2014). Forest Indicator: Forest Area (% of Land Area). In: Li, X. (eds) Human Green Development Report 2014. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43591-5_17
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