Building a new and sustainable “Silk Road economic belt”

Li, Peiyue; Qian, Hui; Howard, Ken; Wu, Jianhua

doi:10.1007/s12665-015-4739-2

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“…Moreover, high-resolution climate model simulation is another efficient way to study the genesis, transport, and deposition of dust and sand storms and to improve our understanding of their climatic impacts [37][38][39][40]. It is worth mentioning that the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road program proposed by China in 2013 will increase human activities and may result in more environmental challenges in the ASB [41,42]. Overall, the ASB has been experiencing substantial environmental changes and facing severe environmental crisis, thus warranting urgent and greater efforts to address these issues.…”

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Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations

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Abstract:The Aral Sea basin (ASB) is one of the most environmentally vulnerable regions to climate change and human activities. During the past 60 years, irrigation has greatly changed the water distribution and caused severe environmental issues in the ASB. Using remote sensing data, this study investigated the environmental changes induced by irrigation activities in this region. The results show that, in the past decade, land water storage has significantly increased in the irrigated upstream regions (13 km 3 year −1 ) but decreased in the downstream regions (−27 km 3 year −1 ) of the Amu Darya River basin, causing a water storage decrease in the whole basin (−20 km 3 year −1 ). As a result, the water surface area of the Aral Sea has decreased from 32,000 in 2000 to 10,000 km 2 in 2015. The shrinking Aral Sea exposed a large portion of the lake bottom to the air, increasing (decreasing) the daytime (nighttime) temperatures by about 1 • C year −1 (0.5 • C year −1 ). Moreover, there were other potential environmental changes, including drier soil, less vegetation, decreasing cloud and precipitation, and more severe and frequent dust storms. Possible biases in the remote sensing data due to the neglect of the shrinking water surface area of the Aral Sea were identified. These findings highlight the severe environmental threats caused by irrigation in Central Asia and call attention to sustainable water use in such dryland regions.

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Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations

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“…So how to combine the situation and the characteristics of running a school and seek opportunity of development is worth further discussion by colleges and universities [4].…”

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Exploration and Practice of Talents Training Mode for Higher Education under Belt and Road Policy

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2017)

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Abstract-With the implementation of the Belt and Road, the demand for the internationalization of higher education is getting higher and higher. The need of it for internationalized talents is reflected in language skills and professional knowledge, more importantly, it is reflected in its comprehensive and complex characteristics. Based on the analysis of higher education, this paper puts forward some requirements on personnel training in higher education with the aim of promoting cultural exchange, training international talents and building a science and technology innovation platform. At this stage, colleges and universities set up alliances with colleges and universities of the new Silk Road and relying on their superior disciplines to continuously raise the quality of internationalized university and increase the reserve of Chinese higher talent in the strategy of the Belt and Road.

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“…The consumption of coal in China has increased and the Silk Road initiative will further increase the demand for coal (Li et al 2015(Li et al , 2017, posing potentially significant impacts to the environment and human health Wu and Sun 2016). Coal mining in China has caused serious environmental pollution and safety problems in mining areas .…”

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Overburden Failure Associated with Mining Coal Seams in Close Proximity in Ascending and Descending Sequences Under a Large Water Body

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Building a new and sustainable “Silk Road economic belt”

Cited by 299 publications

References 8 publications

Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations

Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations

Exploration and Practice of Talents Training Mode for Higher Education under Belt and Road Policy

Overburden Failure Associated with Mining Coal Seams in Close Proximity in Ascending and Descending Sequences Under a Large Water Body

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