Liu Gaohuan1, Bas Pedroli2 , Michiel Van Eupen2, Bianca Nijhof2, Wang Xingong3
1 Prof. Liu Gaohuan, State Key Lab. of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11 A Datun Road, Anwai, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P.R.China, liugh@lreis.ac.cn
2 Alterra Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
3 Yellow River Basin Water Resources Protection Bureau, ZhengZhou, China
Abstract Yellow River Delta is one of the most important wetlands of china, but it is suffering the serious impact of the oilfield development, population increase, and land use change, etc. A comprehensive assessment on its sustainable development is made and main impacts that the Yellow River Delta faced are analyzed in this paper. Based on this, the recommendations for the further research and management are formulated, aiming to the balanced water allocation for sustainable development and nature protection
Keywords freshwater wetland£» integrated assessment£» management
