2) A comprehensive, consistent, forward-looking national policy is necessary to achieve sustainable use of water resources. 3) Empowerment of river basin commissions with comprehensive authority over the integrative management of air, land, water, and biological resources in the river basin could ...
1). The bathymetry of the study area lies between 1000 and 2000m. It is bordered in the southwest by the Luconia Block and in the southeast by Northwest Sabah Trough. The Deep-water Fold and Thrust Belt (DWFTB) of Northwest Sabah (Borneo), adjacent to the current study area is a ...
Harbin is the regional centre of land, water, and air transport. A dense network of highways connects Harbin to neighbouring cities, and expressways stretch northwest to the Daqing area and east to the Yaboli winter skiing centre. Major rail lines radiate from the city south to Dalian in Liao...
There are six major soil regions—three in the east and three in the west. In the east they include the highly fertile purple-brown forest soils for which the Red Basin is named. This group of soils rapidly absorbs and loses water, and it erodes easily. The other eastern soils consist ...
Studies on the perception of a wide variety of environmental hazards have been undertaken including forest fire [31], drinking water [32], pesticides [33,34], earthquakes [35,36] and nuclear power [37]. Bickerstaff and Walker [1] and Howel et al. [38] focused on the perception of ...
Firstly, the aim is to develop a cropland abandonment map in the hilly regions surrounding the southwestern basin using multi-source satellite imagery. Secondly, the goal is to determine the abandonment rate of cropland in Mingshan County, China, along with its driving factors, taking into ...
Inadequate water quality can mean that water is unsuitable for a variety of human uses, thus exacerbating freshwater scarcity. Previous large-scale water scarcity assessments mostly focused on the availability of sufficient freshwater quantity for provid
Seven land use types were obtained through land cover data: Cultivated Land, Forest, Grassland, Shrubland, Wetland, Water Bodies, and artificial surfaces. Geological maps can be used to extract lithology and soil. The lithology of the study area is divided into five categories: igneous rock, met...
relaxation and spirituality. Visitors will find pagodas, temples, walking paths, sitting areas, tea farms and a museum along its shores and sometimes jutting over the water. Tea is an important part of the West Lake experience.Dragon Welltea produced there is one of the most famous teas in ...
The water is covered with ice. It’s difficult for the white whales to breathe, so they come up to find openings in the ice to get enough air. As the winter is coming, they know it’s time to leave. A group of about a hundred white whales swim south toward the Bering Sea. Half...