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Pretreatments of wheat straw for possibility use in maintenance-free compressed green roof substrates
Green roofs are a key measure used to alleviate the urban heat island effect and reduce stagnant water from urban runoff. However, the expensive substrate material and high construction cost restrict the large...
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Impact of utility-scale solar photovoltaic array on the aeolian sediment transport in Hobq Desert, China
Deserts are ideal places to develop ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power station. Unfortunately, solar energy production, operation, and maintenance are affected by geomorphological changes...
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Conclusions and Suggestions
The prevention and control of land degradation has strong public welfare and externality, and the possibility of full marketization is very small. The implementation of public-private cooperation mode is an id...
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Public-Private Partnership Practice Case Analysis
Yili Resources Group’s original production base is located in the abdomen of Kubuqi Desert, which has suffered greatly. Specifically, the management of the Kubuqi Desert was forced to withdraw. At that time, b...
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Land Degradation and Its Prevention in Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is located at the northern border of the motherland and extends from northeast to southwest, taking a long and narrow shape. Now it has jurisdiction over 3 leagues, 9 cities an...
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Research Contents and Methods
This research mainly includes three parts, theoretical research, empirical research, and countermeasure research, of which the empirical research is divided into two parts: current situation evaluation and dri...
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Efforts to Control Land Degradation
During the Ninth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, the state demanded “to achieve basic self-sufficiency in food based on domestic resources” with a self-sufficiency rate of not less...
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Land Degradation Action Plan in Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia has a special geographical location, with little rain and drought. More than two-thirds of the region’s ecological environment is fragile and sensitive. The climate is getting drier and drier. L...
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Introduction
After World War II, European and American countries embarked on the road of development that was later called “welfare state,” characterized by a large part of the national economy leaning toward nationalizati...
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Land Degradation
From an ecological point of view, land degradation refers to the deterioration of plant growth conditions and the decline of land productivity. From the perspective of system theory, land degradation is the re...
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Application of PPP Model in the Prevention and Control of Land Degradation in Our Region
Since the reform and opening up, the state has implemented laws and regulations such as the “Soil and Water Conservation Law,” “Regulations on the Implementation of Soil and Water Conservation,” “Sand Control ...
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Interactive effects of wind speed, vegetation coverage and soil moisture in controlling wind erosion in a temperate desert steppe, Inner Mongolia of China
The rapid desertification of grasslands in Inner Mongolia of China poses a significant ecological threaten to northern China. The combined effects of anthropogenic disturbances (e.g., overgrazing) and biophysi...
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Effects of wind guide plates on wind velocity acceleration and dune leveling: a case study in Ulan Buh Desert, China
The areas used to be covered by shifting sand dunes have been reclaimed rapidly in recent years. However, it is a challenge to reclaim high sand dunes because it is rather costly to level the high dunes to gen...
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Persistence of four dominant psammophyte species in central Inner Mongolia of China under continual drought
Clarifying the persistence time of seedlings of dominant species under continual drought will help us understand responses of ecosystems to global climate change and improve revegetation efforts. Drought toler...