The interdisciplinary study on prevention of desertification and necessity of socio-economic structure reform in China

通过调查研究，从社会科学的角度阐明了人类活动对沙漠化的有害影响，并通过跨学科研究评价了人类活动和工业化导致沙漠化的程度。研究区域选择了世界上沙漠化速度和程度最严重的中国新疆维吾尔自治区、内蒙古自治区和宁夏回族自治区。本项目取得的研究成果拟以《中国沙漠化实体区域报告》为题，以中、日、英三种语言分别编制三个区域的自然和社会方面数据库出版。

We had made surveys to elucidate a harmful effect of human activities on the desertification from the view point of social science, and to evaluate extent of leading a desertification due to human activity and industrialization by means of interdisciplinary research. The research areas chosen were the Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China, where the rate and extent of desertification being serious in the world. The research fruits obtained in this project are planned to be published entitled as "The regional report on desertification entities in China" with the database of natural and social aspects of the three each area, in Chinese, Japanese and English, respectively.