| Research Agenda for Understanding Transboundary Ecosystem Changes and Eco-security in Southwestern China |
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| 作者姓名： | LIU Jiang HE Daming |
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| 作者单位： | LIU Jiang and HE Daming Asian International Rivers Center，Yunnan University，Kunming，650091，China |
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| 摘 要： | Introduction One of the foremost challenges facing the world in the 21st century is maintaining global ecosystem diversity. This requires thorough understanding of ecosystem vulnerability and resilience. Economic globalization has forced nations to consid…
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| 文章编号： | 1672-6316（2006）01-0081-10 |
| 收稿时间： | 2005-09-01 |
| 修稿时间： | 2006-01-23 |
Research agenda for understanding transboundary ecosystem changes and eco-security in Southwestern China |
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| LIU Jiang HE Daming.Research Agenda for Understanding Transboundary Ecosystem Changes and Eco-security in Southwestern China[J].Journal of Mountain Science,2006,3(1):81-90. |
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| Authors: | Jiang Liu Daming He |
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| Institution: | (1) Asian International Rivers Center, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, China |
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| Abstract: | The longitudinal range-gorge region (LRGR) in Southwestern China, characterized by longitudinal mountain ranges and deep valleys,
includes the basins of four major international rivers: the Yuanjiang-Red, Lancang Mekong, Nujiang Salween and Irrawaddy.
This region is classified as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, and provides an important ecological and economic corridor
linking China and Southeast Asian countries. Over the past half century, it has served as a resource base for timber and minerals
needed to fuel economic development, which resulted in rapid and drastic changes in ecosystem and species diversity. Proposed
and ongoing development programs, such as China’s Great Western Development campaign, Greater Mekong Subregional Economic
Cooperation (GMS) and China-ASEAN free trade zone development (“10+1”), threaten to bring unprecedented disturbance to the
region’s ecosystems. Present and emerging threats to eco-security have caught tremendous attention worldwide. Therefore, studies
on such problems are critical for enhancing ecosystem health and transboundary eco-security.
This paper indicates several multi-disciplinary and cross-sector studies on transboundary resources in this region that will
meet three major national needs: 1) identifying core scientific issues of ecological development and infrastructure construction
in high plateau and mountainous areas for the Western Development campaign; 2) developing maintenance mechanisms and control
methodologies for transboundary eco-security and resource base development; 3) providing scientific grounds for multi-lateral
diplomacy, trade and economic cooperation, and conflict resolution as part of China’s opening-up to south Asia. The key subjects
to be solved include dynamics and major drive forces of this area, ecological effects caused by major projects construction,
and transboundary eco-security and its controlling. The research projects proposed in this article will develop theories on
ecosystem change and transboundary eco-security, and provide a scientific basis for national and international development
strategies. |
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| Keywords: | Longitudinal range-gorge region transboundary ecosystem changes eco-security Southwestern China |
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