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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:"Initiative on Mega-Disasters: Science, Policy and Human Behavior \"Chairman Mao, the Great Leap Forward and the Deforestation Ecological Disaster in the South China Karst\""
DESCRIPTION:"\rCenter for Advanced Study\r\rPeter Huntoon\rProfessor (retired), Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming\r\rThe south China karst belt has been profoundly and detrimentally impacted by massive post-1958 deforestation, especially by cutting associated with Mao's 5-year Great Leap Forward Campaign. The annual food-drought cycle has been sufficiently intensified by the loss of the green reservoir of the forests that desertification has occurred over large areas. A primary impact of deforestation has been lost water retention in the uplands. The immediate impact of the deforestation was massive starvation, the residual is continued impoverishment of some 100 million people. Reforestation efforts are underway, but they are gradually losing to human encroachments. Two phenomena need to be addressed to accomplish recovery: (1) the heavy dependence of the local population on wood for fuel, and (2) the population explosion.\r\r"
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LOCATION:"Knight Auditorium\, Spurlock Museum\, 600 S. Gregory St.\, Urbana\, IL"
URL:https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event.php?ID=145
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