desertification - the spread of desert-like conditions in arid or semi-arid areas, due to overgrazing, loss of agriculturally productive soils, or climate change. dredging - in general, the practice of deepening an existing waterway; more specifically, a technique used for collecting bottom-dwelli...
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In the context of natural resource degradation, migration can act as means of adaptation both for those leaving and those supported by remittances. Migration can also result from an inability to adapt in-situ, with people forced to move, sometimes to situations of worse or of the same exposure...
The main causes of ecological destruction by mining activities can be divided into two types:natural factorsand artificial factors. 矿山开采中生态破坏的主要原因可分为自然因素和人为因素两大类型,其中,自然因素多是通过自然环境条件中的不利因素加大了对生态环境破坏的程度,而人为因素中,最主要的是矿山开采技术...
9.Natural and Artificial Factors and Their Transfer on Sandy Desertification of Lower Reaches of Shiyang River Basin;石羊河下游沙漠化的自然因素和人为因素及其位移 10.The undulating waves of the open sea are generated by three natural causes:公海上起伏的波浪是由3个自然因素构成的: ...
Recently, research on outstanding universal value (OUV) protection and tourism development at World Natural Heritage sites (WNHSs) has attracted scholarly attention. The aesthetic value of natural landscapes is a powerful driving force for tourism develo
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Group ranches (GRs) were established in Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s; their objectives included the increase of pastoral land productivity and the control of land degradation. Since their establishment, GRs have evolved and new trends have emerged in res
This revealed that industrialisation and its concomitant urbanisation has brought to mans environment such negative factors like loss of biodiversity, enhanced greenhouse warming, desertification, drought, water and air pollution and accumulation of toxic wastes. It is believed that well conserved natural ...
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