Desertification of karst mountains in China and its environmental improvment
Dachang Zhang, Hans Fischer, Karl Mais & Rudolf Pavuza - Institut fur Geographie der Universitat Wien Karst - u. Hohlenabt. am Naturhist Museum Wien
About one-tenth of China is karst mountains, where the most serious environmental problem is so the called desertification do to uncontrolled human lumbering and reclamation. Living in such harsh condition people are relatively poor. The paper proposes countermeasures for the environmemtal improvement:
- the agricultural pattern should change from single-farming to multi-area economy of forestry, livestock management and farming in the light of morphological conditions.
- The way of living should change from firing to utilising electricity, methane, soiar energy or coal.
The feasibilty of these countermeasures are under discussion here too. These countermesures will promote the relation of environmental improvement in karstic mountains to industrial and agricultural development of China.