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LAKES IN CHINA--Research
of Their Environment
(2-Volume Set) In English
by Jin Xiangcan etc. ,
Published in 1995
Size: 19X27cm, Hardback,
Price US$180+$13 by sea mail
Volume 1 - 584 pages, 183 figures;
Volume 2 - 490 pages, 219 figures
China is a country that boasting of many lakes, over
2300 of which have areas over 1km2, and the total area of all the lakes
reach 70988 km2 accounting for about 0.8% of the total area of the country,
with a total storage capacity amounts to 707.7 billion m3, of which fresh
water storing capacity amounts to 225 billion m3. Besides,there are 86825
reservoirs, with a total storage capacity 413 billion m3. The increase
of population and the development of economy have brought some environmental
problems unfavorable to the ecosystem of lakes, such as pollution of toxic
organic substances and heavy metals caused by large amount of discharge
of pollutants, entrophication of lakes, the deterioration of water quality
in arid and semiarid regions caused by reclaiming land from lakes. All
these speed up the aging process of lakes and reservoirs and deteriorate
their water quality, disturb the ecosystem of lakes and hinder the utilization
of lakes, in some case, even cause the total loss of their function, or
the disappearance of lakes themselves. This book is a large special work
of the environmental research on 35 lakes and 5 reservoirs of China, and
control and management of their pollution.
It is the result of years of researches and the summing up of scientific
experiments conducted by lake environmental experts, professors and other
scientific and technical personnel of China. The book is rich in content,
with abundant tables and charts, offering comparatively complete data
and systematic introduction to distribution and characteristics of lakes
in China, their environmental problems , the present state and the trend
of control and management of their pollution and preventive techniques
and countermeasures to be taken to solve them.
It includes the natural environmental shapes of lake in China, main environmental
parameters of major lakes, their hydrological and hydrodynamic characteristics,
their water resources and utilization and development, their hydrochemistry
and aquatic biocommunities, their entrophication, the shrinking of lakes
and reduction of water volume, pollution caused by heavy metals, tonic
organic substances, and aquatic virus, as well as lake environmental administration
and countermeasures. It is a concentrated reflection of the result of
China's investigation and research of the past decades in this field.
The book provide latest information on a large number of lakes and reservoirs
of various types, such as their shapes, water quality, techniques and
achievements in controlling and preventing and curing of their pollution.
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