IMPACTS OF THREE GORGES PROJECT ON THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES
论三峡工程对生态环境和资源的影响

To justify impacts of Three Gorges project on ecological environment and resources, one has to consider the plamed Reservoir area and whole Yangtze River valley to be interrelated as an ecosystem.Within the Reservoir area,a large area of fertile soils,natural and cultural scenes being tourist resources and certain mineral resources would be submerged. The landslide collapso and seismicity may be induced by constraction of the Dam. In the upper Yangtze River valley soil erosion may shorten the life of the Da...