Rehabilitation of degraded mountain ecosystems in southwestern China: An integrated approach

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 390-397

  Shi, Peili ^a   Li, Wenhua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND DEGRADATION; MOUNTAIN REGION;

CHINA;

EID: 0032827511     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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33. This research is under the auspice of the National and CAS's Key Project for Basic Research on Tibet Plateau (Grant number: KZ951-A1-204, KZ95T-06). We thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for financial support for our particiption in the international seminar of Mountain Research and Development: Asia and Africa.