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*Deforestation
**Brought on by desire for "chopsticks, toothpicks and Ping Pong paddles"
**Firewood collection
*[[Increased water scarcity in China]]
*Wind storms
*Improper land use
**Over-cultivation and overgrazing ("the tradegy of the common")
*Climate change
**Increased temperatures, decreased rainfall
**Fragmented government response


==Inhibitors==
==Inhibitors==

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Inhibitors

  • Improved agriculture
    • Problem fences to stop overgrazing
  • Reforestation
    • The "Green Wall" of China
  • Alternatives to wood as a source of fuel

Paradigms

  • The world's largest economy will unlikely be able to feed itself as arable land is swallowed up by sand
  • Increased sand disasters in Bejing
  • Increased internal migration of rural Chinese
    • Increased number of migrant workers in eastern cities

Timing

4th century B.C. first recorded mention of desertification in China
1950s sandstorms in Beijing every 7 or 8 years
1970s sandstorms in Beijing every 2 or 3 years
1990s sandstorms in Beijing annually

Web Resources

  1. Dictionary.com
  2. "China Faces Challenge of Desertification", People's Daily
  3. "Deforestation & Desertification - China"
  4. "Beijing's Desert Storm", Ron Gluckman
  5. "China's creeping sands" Slideshow, Sean Gallagher
  6. "China News: Desertification", China Digital Times

Revision History

September 2009 Created by Gerrit Ledderhof