National Ecological Status Survey and Assessment. Comprehensive Volume

Author: State Environmental Protection Administration
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: From 2000 to 2002, the State Environmental Protection Administration, in conjunction with the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, organized ecological status surveys in western China and the central and eastern regions. The ecological status surveys employed methods such as collecting, summarizing, and analyzing existing data, as well as remote sensing surveys. Through case studies, they provided an in-depth understanding of China's ecological status, the problems it faces, and their causes. The main objectives were: (1) to grasp the ecological status and its dynamic changes; (2) to establish a basic ecological database and preliminarily develop a query system to serve ecological management and decision-making; (3) to complete ecological status reports and multimedia presentations; and (4) to provide a basis for ecological functional zoning and ecological protection planning. This book is based on the findings and reports of the "Ecological Status Survey of Western China" and the "Ecological Status Survey of Central and Eastern China," as well as the ecological status surveys of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government (excluding Taiwan Province, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Macao Special Administrative Region), which were compiled and summarized by the State Environmental Protection Administration. During the revision process, some content was appropriately supplemented and updated using 2003 data to reflect changes in the situation.