The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 467; no. 7311; pp. 43 - 51
• Main Authors: Piao, Shilong, Ciais, Philippe, Huang, Yao, Shen, Zehao, Peng, Shushi, Li, Junsheng, Zhou, Liping, Liu, Hongyan, Ma, Yuecun, Ding, Yihui, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Liu, Chunzhen, Tan, Kun, Yu, Yongqiang, Zhang, Tianyi, Fang, Jingyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.09.2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/106/694; 704/844/2739; Agricultural and forest climatology and meteorology. Irrigation. Drainage; Agricultural and forest meteorology; Agricultural industry; Agricultural land; Agriculture; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Anthropogenic factors; Aquatic resources; Biological and medical sciences; China; Climate Change; Climatic changes; Climatology; Conservation of Natural Resources; Drought; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; Economic Development; Economic growth; Environmental aspects; Environmental impact; Environmental Sciences; Farm buildings; Floods; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General agronomy. Plant production; Global Changes; Greenhouse gases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Industry forecasts; Influence; Irrigation; multidisciplinary; Population Dynamics; Precipitation; Protection and preservation; Rain; review-article; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sciences of the Universe; Trends; Water; Water resources; Water shortages; Asia; China; Dynamical climatology; Prospective; Warming; Climate change; Glacier; Agricultural production; Runoff water; Atmospheric precipitation; Rivers; Agroclimatology; Water resources

China's growth factor China, since mid-2010 the world's second biggest economy and tipped to become the biggest in a few decades, has tremendous climatic and ecological diversity. The likely impact of China's economic expansion on the global climate has been extensively studied but li...