Development Overview and Suggestions to Governance and Restoration on Wetland of the Yellow River Delta

Abstract

The Yellow River Valley holds a very important status on economic and social development as well as the ecological security of China. At the lower reaches of the Yellow River develops the Yellow River Delta where the widest, youngest and most perfect costal wetland ecosystem on the warm temperate zone of the world distributed. The Yellow River Delta boasts the unique geological landform which determines its ecological diversity, also with an important international significance for protection, so more meaningful studies and great protection should be implemented in this region. The paper based on the policies and regulations as well as the status quo of wetland area decreasing, put forward some issues on the study content, such as shoreline variation, erosion and deposition rate, geomorphology, as well as the restoration methods of decompression and diversion to expand the Yellow River Delta wetland, with the aim of providing effective reference to strengthen ecological protection and promoting high-quality development of the Yellow River Delta wetland and the Yellow River Valley as a whole.

Keywords

• wetland
• yellow river delta
• wetland degradation
• wetland research
• governance and restoration