Great Green Wall (China) (English Wikipedia)

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Jiang, Hong (2016), Behnke, Roy; Mortimore, Michael (eds.), "Taking Down the "Great Green Wall": The Science and Policy Discourse of Desertification and Its Control in China", The End of Desertification?, Springer Earth System Sciences, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 513–536, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16014-1_19, ISBN 978-3-642-16013-4, retrieved 2025-02-07
Jiang, Hong (2016), Behnke, Roy; Mortimore, Michael (eds.), "Taking Down the "Great Green Wall": The Science and Policy Discourse of Desertification and Its Control in China", The End of Desertification?, Springer Earth System Sciences, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 513–536, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16014-1_19, ISBN 978-3-642-16013-4, retrieved 2025-02-02

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Chen, Yuan Julian (2018). "Frontier, Fortification, and Forestation: Defensive Woodland on the Song–Liao Border in the Long Eleventh Century". Journal of Chinese History. 2 (2): 313–334. doi:10.1017/jch.2018.7. ISSN 2059-1632.
Chen, Chi; Park, Taejin; Wang, Xuhui; Piao, Shilong; Xu, Baodong; Chaturvedi, Rajiv K.; Fuchs, Richard; Brovkin, Victor; Ciais, Philippe; Fensholt, Rasmus; Tømmervik, Hans; Bala, Govindasamy; Zhu, Zaichun; Nemani, Ramakrishna R.; Myneni, Ranga B. (February 2019). "China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management". Nature Sustainability. 2 (2): 122–129. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7. ISSN 2398-9629. PMC 6376198.
Jia, Xiaoxu; Shao, Ming'an; Zhu, Yuanjun; Luo, Yi (2017-03-01). "Soil moisture decline due to afforestation across the Loess Plateau, China". Journal of Hydrology. 546: 113–122. Bibcode:2017JHyd..546..113J. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.011. ISSN 0022-1694.

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