The Impending Water Crisis in the MENA Region

In many respects the worsening water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa has become an object-lesson in the water crisis facing the wider world as climate change becomes a reality. Although northern and southern temperate zones are likely to see increases in precipitation, the equatorial region will face increasing desertification as access to water declines in the face of continuing demographic growth. Competition over increasingly scarce resources will have major geopolitical and security implications and the Middle Eastern and North Africa region will act as a paradigm of what happens in a biome of water scarcity.     

中国西部土地荒漠化防治的制约因素探析——基于利益层面的分析

土地荒漠化类型的多样性、分布的广泛性、起因的复杂性表明防治荒漠化是一项长期的、艰巨的系统工程。目前荒漠化防治形势严峻，不同行为主体目标的冲突、不同区域主体利益的冲突、个体不同层次需求的冲突制约着土地荒漠化防治。