摘要
近代,人类借助于科技进步,创造了以往任何时代都难以企及的经济迅猛发展。在物质财富已十分发达的今天,全球仍面临着沙漠化、荒漠化、石漠化和水土流失加剧等严重问题,由此引发的土地贫瘠、江河淤积、生态破坏,是导致人口贫困、社会落后和环境恶化的重要因素。世界各国越来越意识到水土保持对于维护良好生态环境,保障经济社会可持续发展的重要性。
Due to recent scientific and technological progress,enormous physical wealth has been produced via un-precedented rapid economical development in modern times.However,severe environmental problems,such as desertification,stone desertification(a kind of desertification,and used only to describe the erosion in the Karst areas of China,where soil is eroded almost completely,the land begins to become barren and underlying stones are expoded).
作者
刘宁
Liu Ning(Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources of P.R.China&President of Chinese Society of Water and Soil Conservation)
