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No other waterway in the world carries as much silt.7 Most of it comes from the Loess Plateau, which is a France-sized monument to erosion.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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No other waterway in the world carries as much silt.7 Most of it comes from the Loess Plateau, which is a France-sized monument to erosion.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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No other waterway in the world carries as much silt.7 Most of it comes from the Loess Plateau, which is a France-sized monument to erosion.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Liu's film Lessons of the Loess Plateau, recently presented at the Asia Society's headquarters in New York, explores how, with outside investment and local people's commitment and courage, ecosystems destroyed by human habitation and land misuse can be restored.
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Tell us about your interaction with the people of the Loess Plateau and how you followed up after the first film.
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The area is comparable to the Loess Plateau biogeographic subunit in the Oriental Deciduous Forests according to Mackinnon.
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The following four photos depict sections of the wall that were constructed on the Loess Plateau and are made of fine yellow earth.
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Starting much earlier, a national effort in reclamation of the severely degraded Loess Plateau in China now shows up in the Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement as a 20-year trend of increasing biomass, in spite of a decrease in rainfall across the region during the same period [109].
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Sustainable development remains one of the greatest challenges, although there have been some successes: at regional scales there are the rehabilitation of much of the Loess Plateau in China and the Great Plains of the United States, as a result of long-term, concerted action.
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China loses more than 2 billion tons of soil a year, just from the Loess Plateau.
Chapter 7 1993
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