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Environmental impact assessments of the Three Gorges Project in China: issues and interventions
The paper takes China's authoritative Environmental Impact Statement for the Yangzi (Yangtze) Three Gorges Project (TGP) in 1992 as a benchmark against which to evaluate emerging major environmental outcomes since the initial impoundment of the Three Gorges reservoir in 2003. The paper particularly examines five crucial environmental aspects and associated causal factors. The five domains include human resettlement and the carrying capacity of local environments (especially land), water quality, reservoir sedimentation and downstream riverbed erosion, soil erosion, and seismic activity and geological hazards. Lessons from the environmental impact assessments of the TGP are: (1) hydro project planning needs to take place at a broader scale, and a strategic environmental assessment at a broader scale is necessary in advance of individual environmental impact assessments; (2) national policy and planning adjustments need to react quickly to the impact changes of large projects; (3) long-term environmental monitoring systems and joint operations with other large projects in the upstream areas of a river basin should be established, and the cross-impacts of climate change on projects and possible impacts of projects on regional or local climate considered. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yan
Degradation mechanism of sludge organic matter treated in alkaline/acidic solution and its effect on long-term strength
The impact of virtual water strategy on domestic inter-regional agriculture products trade of China
Construction and progress of Chinese terrestrial ecosystem carbon, nitrogen and water fluxes coordinated observation
Study on preparation of magnetic Nano-adsorbent and its heavy metal enrichment performance
Remotely assessing and monitoring coastal and inland water quality in China: Progress, challenges and outlook
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