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Review of Earth Critical Zone Research

  • Peijun An ,
  • Zhiqiang Zhang ,
  • Liwei Wang
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  • 1.Lanzhou Library and Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
    2.Chengdu Library and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China

First author:An Peijun(1979-), female, Yingxian County,Shanxi Province,Associate professor. Research areas include geoscience strategy information research and analysis.E-mail:anpj@llas.ac.cn

Received date: 2016-10-16

  Revised date: 2016-11-21

  Online published: 2016-12-20

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Foundation item:Project supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.Y4AC011001),the National Natural Science Foundation of China “Farmland households’response to drought disaster risk in typical dry-farming agriculture area of northwest China”(No.41401649)

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地球科学进展 编辑部, 2016,

Abstract

Since the Earth Critical Zone put forward by National Research Council of America in 2001, it has got a lot of attention and some significant progresses have been made. This paper summarized those Earth Critical Zone projects and related research plans organized and implemented by the United States of America, Germany, Australia, France, China and the European Union, as well as main scientific problems and future development direction in the study of Earth Critical Zone. According to research status of China, the four main research contents should be strengthened including structure, formation and evolution mechanism of Earth Critical Zone, the coulpling interaction mechanism between migration and transformation of material and multi-processes, sevice function and evolution features of Earth Critical Zone and its support and effect on sustainable development, model simulation of process and system of Earth Critical Zone. In addition, our country should actively conduct cooperation and communication with the advanced countries, and enhance our involvement in international key research plans.

Cite this article

Peijun An , Zhiqiang Zhang , Liwei Wang . Review of Earth Critical Zone Research[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2016 , 31(12) : 1228 -1234 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2016.12.1228

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