With rapid industrialization and agricultural modernization in the past two decades, the Yangtze Delta Region in China has been one of the regions in the world most influenced by human activity. How has the economic d...With rapid industrialization and agricultural modernization in the past two decades, the Yangtze Delta Region in China has been one of the regions in the world most influenced by human activity. How has the economic development impacted on ecosys- tem, environment, agriculture and regional climate in this region? What are the mechanisms of the inter- active processes and feedbacks’! What will be the future changes under different development scenar- ios? These are questions of critical importance to sustain the rate of social and economic develop- ment. A Major Project, The Physical-Chemical Pro- cesses in the Lower Atmosphere and Their Interac- tion with the Ecological System over Yangtze Delta, as one of the Ninth Five-Year Major Programs (1996—2000) funded by the National Natural Sci- ence Foundation of China, NSFC, just focused on those questions. Under the leadership of Prof. Zhou Xiuji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sci- ences this project has made significant achieve- ments and great progress in answering the above questions.展开更多
The research process,main contents,methods and conclusions for some major engineering geological problems of the Three Gorges Project (TGP) are reviewed and introduced,including dam site selection,regional tectonic st...The research process,main contents,methods and conclusions for some major engineering geological problems of the Three Gorges Project (TGP) are reviewed and introduced,including dam site selection,regional tectonic stability and seismic activity,stability of reservoir bank and reservoir-induced earthquake.Meanwhile,the above mentioned engineering geological problems are evaluated according to the preliminary test results since TGP operation and impoundment in 2003.展开更多
文摘With rapid industrialization and agricultural modernization in the past two decades, the Yangtze Delta Region in China has been one of the regions in the world most influenced by human activity. How has the economic development impacted on ecosys- tem, environment, agriculture and regional climate in this region? What are the mechanisms of the inter- active processes and feedbacks’! What will be the future changes under different development scenar- ios? These are questions of critical importance to sustain the rate of social and economic develop- ment. A Major Project, The Physical-Chemical Pro- cesses in the Lower Atmosphere and Their Interac- tion with the Ecological System over Yangtze Delta, as one of the Ninth Five-Year Major Programs (1996—2000) funded by the National Natural Sci- ence Foundation of China, NSFC, just focused on those questions. Under the leadership of Prof. Zhou Xiuji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sci- ences this project has made significant achieve- ments and great progress in answering the above questions.
文摘The research process,main contents,methods and conclusions for some major engineering geological problems of the Three Gorges Project (TGP) are reviewed and introduced,including dam site selection,regional tectonic stability and seismic activity,stability of reservoir bank and reservoir-induced earthquake.Meanwhile,the above mentioned engineering geological problems are evaluated according to the preliminary test results since TGP operation and impoundment in 2003.