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Sustainability of Human-Environment Systems

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This chapter summarizes the findings from the study of rural development in the Poyang Lake Region and discusses their possible implications on sustainable development for other less developed rural areas. It also provides a more general framework for analyzing global sustainability.

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Tian, Q. (2017). Sustainability of Human-Environment Systems. In: Rural Sustainability. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52685-0_6

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