摘要
With the economic and social development, desertification exerted increasingly pro-found influences on natural environment and social development and attracted widespread atten-tion of international communities, China, as one of the countries facing severe desertificationproblems, has witnessed some progress in understanding and combating the process of desertifi-cation through many years of hard work. Based on the experiences and research achievements,this paper briefly discusses the causes, developmental processes, damage assessment and con-trol mechanism of desertification in the north of China so as to provide some basic experiences forthe further study of desertification.
With the economic and social development, desertification exerted increasingly pro- found influences on natural environment and social development and attracted widespread atten- tion of international communities. China, as one of the countries facing severe desertification problems, has witnessed some progress in understanding and combating the process of desertifi- cation through many years of hard work. Based on the experiences and research achievements, this paper briefly discusses the causes, developmental processes, damage assessment and con- trol mechanism of desertification in the north of China so as to provide some basic experiences for the further study of desertification.
