2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies on Water Resources and Water Use in an Arid Region in Attention with Historical Changes.
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14209020
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
広領域
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| Research Institution | Research Institute for Humanity and Nature |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAWO Masayoshi Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Research Department, Professor, 研究部, 教授 (90142695)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KUBOTA Jumpei Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Research Department, Associate Professor, 研究部, 助教授 (90195503)
KATO Yuzo Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Research Department, Assistant Professor, 研究部, 助手 (20353451)
SUGIYAMA Masaaki Kyoto University, Department of Letters, Professor, 文学研究科, 教授 (00127094)
FURUMATSU Takashi Kyoto University, Institute of Humanities, 人文科学研究所, 助手 (90314278)
KONAGAYA Yuki National Museum of Ethnology, Professor, 民族学研究開発センター, 教授 (30188750)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2005
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| Keywords | Arid Region / Water Resources and Water Use / Historical Aspect / Yuan Era and Present / Historical Documents / Proxies / Agriculture and Pastoralism / Integration of Nature and Human Studies |
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| Research Abstract |
The water issues at present, when agricultural development is intense, have been compared with those in the era of Yuan Dynasty, when many historical documents are available, in order to assess the effect of human activities for the water shortage found in the Heihe Basin, western China.
Annual precipitation of the basin is as small as 50 to 150 mm in the middle and lower reaches where people are mostly staying. People are hence dependant on the river water which flows from high mountains including melt water of glaciers. Ice core analysis revealed that air temperature had become cooler and cooler in the Yuan Era, which is in good contrast with the warming present situation. Hydrological model calculation indicated that river discharge must have decreased with the cooling trend, owing to rapid growths of glaciers in the mountains, which is quite different from the trend of river discharge in the warming present situation. People, however is and had been facing similar severe water shortage problems both at present and in the Yuan Era. The water shortages in the both periods are concluded to be caused mainly by agricultural development in the middle reaches. It has been pointed out that a political action called "ecological migration" is accelerating water demands in the basin, and causing additional water shortages in the basin.
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] Environmental change and human activity at Ejina in the 14^<th> century turned out through written historical materials.2005
Author(s)
INOUE, M., KATO, Y., ARAKAWA, S., SATO, T., FURUMATSU, T., IGURO, S.
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Journal Title
Project Report on an Oasis Region 5・2
Pages: 143-159
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Book] Ecological Migration : Chinese Policy2005
Author(s)
KONAGAYA, YUKI, Shinjilt, NAKAWO, M. edited
Publisher
Showa-do Publishing Company (Japanese Version), Inner Mongolian University Press (Chainese Version), English version is in preparation
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
