Impact and Response of the Third Driving Force in the Estuary System: A Case Study of the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary
Human activity impacts on the earth system in a scale from local, regional to global, which has been called as the third driving force of earth system. As an integrated complexity, the estuary system could be sensitive to both global changes and integrated natural and anthropogenic variations within the river watershed. More and more estuarine processes have been and will be controlled by the third driving force with an increasing intensity of resource exploitation and human-controlling in the estuary and watershed. Consequently, the healthy development of estuary system will be one of the most important theoretical and practical problems. As a case study of the Changjiang Estuary, the natural evolution with natural adjustment, developing human-control activities, reasonable or sustainable exploitation of natural resources and some suspensive problems are discussed, and some suggestions for harmonious consistency of nature with human being are supposed in the present paper.
Third driving force earth system science estuary system impact and response
Chen Jiyu Cheng Heqin Dai Zhijun
State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China
国际会议
山东东营
英文
219-228
2007-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）