Eco-environmental problems and effective utilization of water resources in the Kashi Plain, western Terim Basin, China

Dynamic Causal Patterns of Desertification

“…Most of these factors involve greater input commitments per unit land area compared with traditional dryland uses (Margaris et al 1996, Niamir-Fuller 1999 such as nomadic pastoralism or shifting cultivation. Could it be that the final link in the causal chain tying social to environmental change is land-use intensification in dryland ecosystems that had been immune from such land uses before, thus increasing these ecosystems' vulnerability to dry episodes (Pickup 1998, Manzano et al 2000, Lin et al 2001, Kharin 2003? Some cases seem to show that intensive land use may follow from production pressure on a fluctuating resource base, but that such intensive land use does not necessarily lead to desertification (Rasmussen et al 2001).…”

“…A frequent pattern of causal interactions, driven mostly by policy, economic, and technological factors, stems from the creation of water-related infrastructure that results in the expansion of irrigated croplands and pastures (Pickup 1998, Genxu and Guodong 1999, Saiko and Zonn 2000, Dube and Pickup 2001, Lin et al 2001. Typically, new irrigation infrastructure prompts farmworkers to migrate into dryland areas, and it often stirs commercial and industrial developments as well as the growth of human settlements and related service economies.…”

Numerical simulations of the atmospheric and land conditions over the Jinta oasis in northwestern China with satellite‐derived land surface parameters

“…In the last half century, however, the rapid growth of population and the overexploitation of water, soil and biological resources have led to drought, salinization, and desertification and consequently have hindered the development of sustainable agriculture [ Chu et al , 2005]. For example, Lin et al [2001] identified that groundwater reservoirs with sustainable water supply equivalent to 44.65 × 10 8 m 3 a −1 are needed to possibly implement several projects in the Kashi Plain in the western Terim Basin to keep the oasis ecological and agricultural environment.…”

A numerical modeling study on desert oasis self-supporting mechanisms

“…In the last half-century, however, the rapid growth of population and the overexploitation of water soil, and biological resources have led to drought, salinization, and desertification and consequently have hindered the development of sustainable agriculture. For example, Lin et al (2001) ecological and agricultural environment. Planting tree windbreaks may also improve oasis environment (Kurose et al, 2002).…”