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01-11-2011 | Editorial

China’s environment: challenges and solutions

Authors: Wu Qiang, Zhou Wanfang, Zhang Liang

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 6/2011

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In the past decades, China has experienced remarkable economic growth and rapid agricultural-to-industrial and rural-to-urban transitions. As a consequence, China, the most populous country in the world, now faces many daunting environmental challenges. They are significantly affecting human health and quality of life. The most serious environmental geological problems are depletion of potable water resource, groundwater contamination, loss of arable land, geological hazards induced by human activities. …

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Ministry of Environmental Protection (2006) Report on the state of the environment in China. http://english.sepa.gov.cn/standards_reports/soe

Ministry of Environmental Protection (2009) Report on the state of the environment in China. http://english.sepa.gov.cn/standards_reports/soe

World Bank (2001) China: air, land, water. Environmental priorities for a new millennium. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/Inteapregtopenvironment\Resources\chinaenvironment1.pdf

Title: China’s environment: challenges and solutions
Authors: Wu Qiang
Zhou Wanfang
Zhang Liang
Publication date: 01-11-2011
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 6/2011
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-011-1380-6

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