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Yellow River basin: living with scarcity

Water International, 2010
The Yellow River basin is a key food production centre of global importance facing rapidly growing water scarcity. Water availability for agriculture in the basin is threatened by rapid growth in the demand for industrial and urban water, the need to flush sediment from the river's lower reaches, environmental demands and growing water pollution ...
Lei Cheng, Tingju Zhu, Ximing Cai
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Characterising baseflow signature variability in the Yellow River Basin

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023
Baseflow is pivotal in maintaining catchment ecological health and improving sustainable economic development. The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is northern China's most important water supplier. However, it faces water shortage due to synergistic effects between natural conditions and anthropogenic activities.
Shixuan Lyu, Chunling Guo, Yuyu Zhai, Mengdong Huang, Guotao Zhang, Yongqiang Zhang, Lei Cheng, Qiang Liu, Yuyan Zhou, Ross Woods, Junlong Zhang   +10 more
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The turning of ecological change in the Yellow River Basin

Hydrological Processes, 2023
AbstractThe Yellow River Basin (YRB) as a source of the oldest world cultures, flows through vast arid and semi‐arid regions of China. Its fragile vegetation is suffering the obvious effect from regional climate change, and easily turns from a critical state into qualitatively different modes of change, which implies significant impacts on humans and ...
Tonghui Gu, Xiaodan Guan, Jianping Huang, Xiaohan Shen, Xiaoqian Huang, Guolong Zhang, Dongliang Han, Li Fu, Junsheng Nie   +8 more
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Nitrogen Contamination in the Yellow River Basin of China

Journal of Environmental Quality, 2002
ABSTRACTNitrogen contamination is one of the most serious problems in the Yellow River of China. This study was conducted to analyze monitoring data on nitrogen contamination for the Yellow River basin in the years 1980, 1990, 1997, and 1999. Several significant results have arisen from the study.
Xinghui, Xia, Jingsong, Zhou, Zhifeng, Yang   +2 more
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Natural runoff changes in the Yellow River Basin

Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2004
The driving factors of runoff changes can be divided into precipitation factor and non-precipitation factor, and they can also be divided into natural factor and human activity factor, In this paper, the ways and methods of these driving factors impacting on runoff changes are analyzed at first, and then according to the relationship between ...
Li Chunhui, Yang Zhifeng
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The evolution of ecological security and its drivers in the Yellow River Basin

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023
Ecological security is the state achieved once an ecosystem maintains its stability under external stress. The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is the largest river basin in northwest and north China and an important area for grain and energy production. The assessment and attribution of ecological security in the YRB are important for protecting the natural ...
Guolong Zhang, Jianping Huang, Xiaoyue Liu, Xiaodan Guan, Yun Wei, Lei Ding, Dongliang Han   +6 more
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Ecological Governance of the Yellow River Basin

GBP Proceedings Series
As an important ecological barrier and cultural cradle of China, the ecological governance effectiveness of the Yellow River Basin not only concerns the sustainable development of the region, but also has a profound impact on the ecological security and coordinated economic and social development of ethnic minority areas.
Rishuai Xing, Xiaoyi Cheng
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Achieving Water Security in the Yellow River Basin

2023
This brief explores ways of strengthening water security in the Yellow River basin of the People’s Republic of China. It discusses the challenges of water shortages, flooding, soil erosion, high loads of sedimentation, water pollution, environmental degradation, and climate change.
Silvia Cardascia, Tom Panella
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Geomorphic Diversity of Rivers in the Upper Yellow River Basin

2016
The Yellow River is the third longest river in Asia and the sixth longest river in the world. The Upper Yellow River lies at the margins of and atop the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, the highest plateau in the world with an average elevation of 4000 m above sea level and an area of about 2.6 million km2.
Gary John Brierley, Guo-an Yu, Zhiwei Li
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Anthropogenic impacts on the Yellow River Basin

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Introduction Hydrological changes Precipitation Evapotranspiration Soil moisture and groundwater Glaciers and open-surface water bodies River discharge Changing sediment load and deposition Temporal trends Spatial heterogeneity Responses to decreased sediment Anthropogenic changes Changing population distribution Changes in water use Land use and ...
Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Haoyu Zhang, Lu Yu, Chentai Jiao, Changjia Li, Xutong Wu, Wenwu Zhao, Jim Best, Patrick Roberts, Bojie Fu   +10 more
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