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381 R. Hartmann, J. Wang (Eds.), a Comparative Geography of China Index Symbols B \1st five-year\ period, China Five Year Plans, Baoan County (China), 294, 296 1953-1957, 293 Bayan Har Mountain (China), 24, 40 \2nd five-year\ period, China Five Year Plans, Beijing, 1, 65 1958-1962, 293 capital city, 243 10-Year Cooperation Joint Working Group, Great Hall of the People, 244 359 Haidian district universities, 244 \Eleventh Five-Year Plan\, China Five Year Hi-Tech Park, 249 Plans, 2006–2010, 233, 358 Hutongs, 245 \Tenth Five-Year Plan\, China Five Year Plans, Lama Temple, 245 1001-2005, 241 municipality, 243 \September 11\ incident, 15 Olympic stadium, 243 Zhongguancun, 244 A Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Megaregion, 235, 323 Academia Sinica, 364 Bilateral and multilateral communication, 363 Acid rain, 64, 355, 363 Birmingham, Alabama, 217, 218 Aeolian soils, 339 Blue Ridge Mountains, 7, 31 Agricultural machinery, 123 Bohai Rim, 168 cooperation, 125 Bohai Sea, 40, 132, 163, 242, 322, 323 operation, 320 Boston, 202, 206, 207, 209, 211 Agricultural modernization, 125 Bread baskets, 310, 349 Agricultural regions, 122, 311, 318, 327 Agricultural water-saving systems, 135 C Air pollution, 64, 67, 68, 355, 356 California Altai mountain (China), 5 Central valley, 79, 137–140, 148 Altun mountains (China), 24 California Coast, 76, 79 American Association of Geography (AAG), Capital-intensive, 166, 237 367 Carbon emission, 163, 358, 361, 363 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Carrying capacity, 318, 371 359 Cascade Mountains, 7, 32, 78, 138, 141, 142 Anhui (China), 56, 92, 127, 176, 230, 236, Central Arizona Project, 284 239, 317, 326 Central Shandong Mountains, 24 Appalachian Mountains (USA), 29, 31, 42, 45, Changbai mountains, 24, 26, 95 70, 72, 77, 79, 136, 215 Changchun Aquaculture industry, 132 Jilin, 93, 95, 130, 168, 311, 314 Arkansas, 31, 105, 138, 139, 143, 339 Chaohu Plain, 323 Arkansas River (USA), 42 Chayu River, 133 Atlanta, Georgia, 99, 100 China Atlantic Coastal Plain (USA), 7, 29, 30 age structure of, 85, 86, 97 R. Hartmann, J. Wang (eds.), A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S., 381 GeoJournal Library 109, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8792-5, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014 382 Index area size of, 4 Corn Belt, 117, 129, 136, 138–140, 144, 148, carbon foot print, 163 310, 314, 327, 328, 330–336, 339, 341, distribution ethnic groups, 9, 93, 95, 114, 345, 349 115 Cotton-wheat rotation, 325 educational structure, 85, 86 Cultural Revolution, 226, 366 ethnic composition, 92 exports, 18, 144, 166, 182, 183 D GDP growth rate, 17 Dalian geographical position, 4 Liaoning, 50, 92, 95, 130, 168, 176, history civilization, 12, 14, 353 226–230, 311, 315 imports, 17, 119, 162, 163, 166, 182, 183, Daxing’an Ranges, 24, 95 185, 191 Deforestation, 363 latitudinal range, 4 Desertification, 363, 373 origins of agriculture, 118, 119 District of Columbia, 218, 219, 220 policy of reform and opening, 355 Divergence between socialism and capitalism, population growth, 84, 85, 88, 109, 114, 359 296 Domestic self-sufficiency, 120 population volume, 233 Dongting Lake Plain, 27, 323, 326 reforms and opening up, 130 Drought, 23, 33, 40, 55, 56, 58, 120, 280, 319 spring and autumn period, 324 Dujiangyan Irrigation Area, 287 trading partners, 185, 195, 197 Dujiangyan Weir project, 287 urbanization, 226 Dujiangyan Dam, 119 China Geography Specialty Group (CGSG), Dust Bowl, 58, 59, 337, 339, 348 366 Dust storms, 332, 337, 348, 363, 369 China Meteorological Administration, 368 China’s Geographical Association, 365 E Chinatown Earthquakes, 23, 45, 47–49, 59 Manhattan, 221, 223, 224 East China Sea, 132, 163 China-US diplomatic relations (1979), 354 Economic Chinese Academy of Sciences, 312, 364 geography, 159, 161, 365 Climate, 6, 23, 32–34, 39, 44, 63, 71, 80, 90, ranking, 16 342 Emission trading, 362 Climate change, 19, 20, 34, 39, 55, 134, 149, Energy, 19, 43, 51, 59, 63, 162–164, 193, 215, 306, 312, 318, 354, 357–359, 361, 363, 324, 337, 348, 354–357, 359, 360, 368, 373, 374 362–364, 373 Colorado Plateau, 7, 29, 32, 39, 78, 79 Environmental Colorado River, 42, 140, 288, 290 awareness, 135, 355 Columbia Plateau, 7, 29, 31, 34 degradation, 252 Columbia River, 42 impact assessment, 362 Commercial agriculture, 132 impacts, 163 Committee on Chinese Geography (CCG), 368 landscape, 211 Competitive advantage, 293, 303, 304 pollution, 360 Concentrated animal feeding operations problem, 67, 113, 355–357, 359, 360, 374 (CAFOs), 123, 143, 150, 321, 327, protection, 363, 364, 369 335, 340, 350 systems, 205 Conservation reserve program (CRP), 146, taxation, 362 148 topography, 205 Contaminated arable land, 135 Conversion of agricultural lands, 146 F Cordillera System, 28, 39, 44 Famines, 119, 120, 151 Corn, 101, 118, 121, 123, 127, 129, 131–133, Farm-ranches, 341 136, 137, 139, 142, 144, 154, 310, 313, Federal Emergency Management Agency 314, 319, 322, 328, 329, 334–336, 341, (FEMA), 73 348, 349 Index 383 Flood, 23, 33, 40, 51, 53, 59, 119, 120, 280, Hebei, 56, 130, 230, 233–235, 318, 322 287, 290, 321, 325 Heilongjiang Province, 316 management of, 287 Heilongjiang Reclamation Area, 313, 314 Florida Peninsula, 29, 34, 137 Heilongjiang River, 4 Food security, 120, 310, 349 Helan Mountain ranges, 25 Fuhe river, 281 Henan, 53, 56, 92, 127, 130, 168, 176, 317, Fujian, 7, 27, 49, 66, 139, 178, 230, 239, 327 318, 322 Hengduan Mountains ranges, 24, 25 G Hetao Plain, 133 Gambling capital, 295 Hexi Corridor, 75, 128, 133 Gaming industry, 302 High Plains, 58, 136–138, 140, 142, 148, Gangdise mountain, 24, 26, 32 327–330, 332–334, 337, 339– 342, Gansu, 87, 93, 126, 128, 168 344–349 Genetically modified (GM) Himalayans, 5, 6 foods and animals, 146 Hohokam Native American group, 288 Geographer-to-geographer cooperation, 368 Hoh Xil Mountain, 24, 26 Glasgow Dandong Snow Mountain, 40 Homestead Act (1862), 340 Global environmental change, 362, 371 Hong Kong, 16, 18, 185, 239, 240, 241, 248, Globalization, 2, 3, 15, 121, 160, 187, 205, 251, 294, 303, 370, 371 356, 363 Huaihe River, 27, 40, 66, 316 Global sustainability, 363 Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, 40, 127, 317, 318 Government-to-Government Cooperation, Hubei, 12, 56, 92, 127, 168, 176, 282, 291, 354, 359, 364 323, 326 Grain self-sufficiency, 120 Human Development Index (HDI), 19 Grain-to-green policy, 369 Human dimensions, 369, 372 Grasslands Reserve Program (GRP), 147, 148 Human-environment Great Basin and Range, 39 interactions, 80, 115 Great Canal, 119 relationship, 280, 369, 371 Great Lakes, 30, 43, 45, 72, 78, 136, 194, 226, system, 115, 278, 371 332–334 Human geography, 365, 367, 369, 370, 374 Great Lakes Seaway, 332 Hunan, 327 Great Plains, 8, 29, 30, 34, 39, 70, 71, 78, 138, Hurricane Alley, 51 162, 310 Hurricanes, 23, 49, 51, 53, 59, 62, 70 Great Smokey Mountains, 29 Andrew, 51, 58 Groundwater overdraft, 118, 146, 319 Galveston, 51 Guangdong, 49, 50, 91, 126, 129, 168, 175, Katrina, 51, 53 176, 178, 239, 240, 282, 296 Guangxi, 9, 49, 50, 93, 129, 178, 239 I Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 9 Idaho Guangzhou, 228, 229, 239 potatoes, 138, 142 Guanzhong Plain, 128 Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, 95 Guizhou, 56, 87, 93, 112, 130, 168, 239 Indianapolis Gulf Coast, 7, 34, 53 Indiana, 44, 100, 170, 330, 336 Gulf of Mexico, 5, 29–31, 34, 45, 51, 69, 70, Indianapolis Transportation Hub and Cluster, 72, 77, 79, 127, 132, 137, 194, 215, 334 337 Industrial clusters, 238 Industrialization, 65, 72, 91, 124, 159, 174, H 278, 316, 321, 324, 363 Haihe River, 27, 40, 66, 316 Inner Mongolia, 9, 56, 93, 95, 128, 133, 162, Hainan, 33, 49, 50, 129, 239 168, 230, 316, 342 Hainan Island, 24 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 9, 132 Han Dynasty, 281 Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, 311 Harbin Inner Mongolia Plateau, 7, 24, 26, 90 Heilongjiang, 8, 56, 95, 130, 311, 312, 316 Institutional innovations, 294, 299 384 Index Intermountain Plateaus, 32 M International cooperation, 358, 362, 363 Manufacturing, 8, 91, 97, 121, 130, 159, 160, International division of labor, 159, 160 163–166, 168, 170, 172, 175, 181, 183, International Geographical Union (IGU), 367 187, 192, 196, 214, 217, 218, 237, 238, International trade, 18, 181–184, 187–189, 241, 248, 277, 280, 292, 293, 304, 191, 192, 194, 197, 198, 214, 248, 249 327, 334 IT Development Silicon Valley, 137, 154 Market competitiveness, 134 Megapolitan Areas, 205, 208 J Megaregions, 201, 202, 205, 207, 213 Jianghan Plain, 323, 326 Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain, 24, 309, 323, Jiangnan Hills, 27 349 Jiangsu, 92, 93, 168, 176, 178, 230, 236–238, Ming Dynasty, 243, 282 317, 323, 326 Mining, 67, 68, 121, 161–164, 174, 280, 288, Jiangsu and Anhui plains, 27 295, 360 Jiangxi, 56, 92, 93, 239, 323, 326, 327 Minshan Mountain Range, 24, 287 Jinjiang River, 281 Mississippi-Missouri River, 6 Joint responsibility, 20, 373 Mississippi River, 30, 31, 41, 43, 49, 58, 138, Junggar Basin, 7, 24, 26 143, 310, 332, 333 Mississippi Valley, Native American Crops, 136, 138 K Missouri River, 30, 42 Karakorum Mountains, 26 Modern agriculture, 119, 234, 310 Karezin system, 119 Mohe, 4 Kenli County, 40 Mollisols, 136, 311, 332, 339 Kunlun Mountains, 24, 44 Multiple crop index, 319 Kyoto Protocol, 357, 361 Mutual trust, 359 L N Labor-intensive, 156, 165, 166, 198, 237, 303, Nanling Mountains, 26 310 National Disaster Reduction Committee, 73 Land degradation, 125, 363 National interest, 188, 356, 359, 362, 363 Landforms, 24, 26, 28, 30–34, 59, 70, 71, 80 National Natural Science Fund, 368 Land of plenty, 325 National Reclamation Act, 289 Land use Natural resources, 27, 155, 161, 163, 168, 206, changes, 155, 277 234, 240, 365, 369, 371, 372 control system, 134 Natural Resources Conservation
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