Advances in Earth Science ›› 2005, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (9): 1037-1040. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2005.09.1037

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DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CREEPING

ZHANG Qiang; ZHANG Kai   

  1. Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Changing and Reducing Disaster of Gansu Province, Institute ofArid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou 730020,China
  • Received:2004-08-16 Revised:2005-03-14 Online:2005-09-25 Published:2005-09-25

ZHANG Qiang;ZHANG Kai. DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CREEPING[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2005, 20(9): 1037-1040.

“Environmental Creeping” was highly concerned by the international science fields and the political circles as a new science direction. It plays a very important role in global change. It is highly important that we should combine “Environmental Creeping” with global change. As a science problem, we should understand and develop it gradually. At present, it is the most initial problem that we should to define the conception of “Environmental Creeping” scientifically and definitely, and had better make clear the connotation and character of “Environmental Creeping” in the round. In order to explain the doubts, the author seriously considered this problem from the scientific point of view. Firstly, this paper briefly reviewed the origin of the new idea of “Environmental Creeping”, analyzed the relationship of “Environment Creeping” and Global change, and then, a more specific scientific notion was given. Secondly, the essence character and scientific meaning of “Environmental Creeping” were abstracted and concluded. At last, we pointed out the scientific attitude to “Environmental Creeping”.

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