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BOOKS & reading ,BOOKS ,GEOGRAPHY ,PRODUCTION (Economic theory) ,CLIMATOLOGY ,SUPPLY & demand ,ENVIRONMENTAL quality - Abstract
The article presents information about the book "The Dragon's Head: Shanghai, China's Emerging Megacity." The book contains twenty-three papers, by members of the departments of Geography at the University of Victoria and the East China Normal University, that analyze the city of Shanghai from a geographical perspective. The papers discuss the geomorphology of Shanghai; the climate; the formation and use of Shanghai's soils; rainstorms in Shanghai; urban climate and atmospheric environmental quality; the vegetation of Shanghai; hydrology and water resources; Shanghai's water environment; Shanghai's agricultural production; Shanghai's land use; labor resources and related supply and demand; urban traffic; the twenty-first century construction of a port complex in the Changjiang Delta economic area.
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- 1999
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