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Linkages between Climate Change and Desertification: Glantz

Figure 1: Potential environmental "hotspots" in China

map of China with potential "hotspots" circled

  1. Inner Mongolia desert region (close to Beijing; major source of sandstorms)
  2. Tibet Plateau (major river heads and ecosystem; sensitive to global warming and regional climate changes)
  3. Chonqing (deforestation, dam building, river diversion, water pollution, migration, fast economic development in industry
  4. Xinjiang (oil exploration in Tarim desert affects Tarim and Yarkant Rivers, two major desert river systems)
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