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The emission of biogenic methane from agricultural practices, specifically rice paddy production, is significant.i The large deserts in western China are also important to the global environment; their dust mixed with industrial pollutantsis transported over the Pacific Ocean, which may alter the chemistry and radiative processes in the remote troposphere. To the extent that environmental stresses threaten domestic economic development and food production, the Chinese government has been responsive.
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And, the Chinese scientific community is responding, assisted, in part, by major international research programs that address global climate and global environmental change. As a result, a policy approach to global change issues and support for research is evolving.
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Purpose Given China's current and potential impacts on the global environment and the contributions Chinese science can make to global change research, it is all the more important for China to participate fully in international research programs that address global change questions. However, not much detailed information has been avail~ble to program planners or foreign researchers interested in collaboration.
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And, in the second area, the panel examined hydrology, biotic controls on trace gases, and land cover change dynamics. Based on this charge, the panel was formally constituted as the "CSCPRC Panel on Global Climate Change Sciences in China." When the panel met together for the first time, however, members noted that the committee charge went beyond climate change studies and, therefore, approached its work under the broader rubric of reporting on global change sciences.
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, which is the largest institution in China carrying out research across the range of global change disciplines. Because CAS plays a primary role in global change research and because of its role in organizing panel access to information, the study's information about CAS activities is particularly robust compared to other agencies.
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Chapter 4 describes Chinese research that is relevant to IGBP and WCRP core programs and the Chinese Ecological Research Network, which is considered an official component of the Chinese global change program. Chapter 5 focuses in greater detail on specific research topics selected by the panel.
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was established to facilitate the development of cooperative studies by organizing and funding project development workshops. By 1991, six areas and co-principal investigators had been identified and five bilateral workshops had been held: climate-vegetation interactions, precipitation composition, global change education (proposal pending)
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