The New Modes of Desert Governance

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Desertification has caused great harms to the ecological environment and socio-economic. Through many years test in Xinjiang desert area, some useful modes of desert governance can be implemented: (1) making use of advanced water-saving irrigation technology; (2) combining reasonable cropping patterns with higher economic value plants like arbors, shrubs and medicinal herbs planted in the desert, which not only plays the roles of windbreak and sand fixing, but also can gain some economic, ecological and social benefits.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 726-731)

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3723-3726

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August 2013

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