- Ecological rehabilitation of industrial vacant land in the three Gorges Project    click here to open paper content195 kb
by    Huan, Huang & Luo, Qiaoling | ICES2007@163.com   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
Short Outline
One role of land use in the low-carbon city is to use urban land circularly. Many industrial vacant lands are left during the construction process in the Three Gorges Project. This paper explores the ecological rehabilitation methods for those lands.
Abstract
One role of land use under the low-carbon city theory is to use urban land efficiently and circularly.The Three Gorges Project on Yangtze River (China) offers a strategic solution to promote Yangtze River Basin eco-social sustainability. Sadly, the recent industrial vacant lands are occurred during the process of construction. Intensive use of urban land resources, recycling of construction facilities, and the use of reasonable measures and ecological restoration to the waste sites and structures are all strategies to deal with environmental crisis of global warming, and eventually achieve some standards of a low-carbon city.
This paper explores the ecological rehabilitation principle and methods for the industrial vacant lands in the Three Gorges Project.
Firstly, it summarizes general ecological Rehabilitation methods theoretically.
Secondly, it analyzes the current ecological issues from three aspects, the land-ecosystem, the water-ecosystem, and the aquatic-terrestrial ecosystem in the Three Gorges district.
Thirdly, ecological rehabilitation technique will be applied for revitalization of industrial vacant lands in the project innovatively. An ecological rehabilitation system for the Three Gorges industrial vacant lands will be built from two scopes, the vacant sites and the waste structures.
Finally, the method is proved as reasonable and feasible applications through the practical projects. It offers a model of solution in ecological rehabilitation for industrial vacant lands.
Keywords
Industrial discarded land; Ecological restoration; Water Conservancy Area, Three Gorges
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