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range of possible policies, the future options for urban, industrial and agricultural
development, possible conflicting effects of the policies, and the resulting land use,
soil and water pollution, water quality, water supply and demand in the case study
area for the different policies.
2) Can you identify disciplinary and multi-disciplinary activities?
Main activities are multi-disciplinary. For example, land use change, agricultural
intensification, farm management changes and changing socio-economic conditions
strongly interact in the peri-urban areas of Beijing Municipality and cause rapid
changes in agricultural production systems, employment and environmental pollution
and cause increasing shortage of scarce resources such as water, land and clean air.
D) General project outputs
1) What are the scientific contributions of the project?
Wolf, J., Van Wijk, M.S., Xu Cheng, Roetter, R.P., Jongbloed, A.W., Yanxia Hu,
Changhe Lu, Van Keulen, H. and Wolf, J., 2003. Urban and peri-urban agricultural
production in Beijing municipality and its impact on water quality. Environment
& Urbanization 15, 141-156.
Van Diepen, C.A., Van Wijk, M.S., Xu Cheng, Hu, Y., Van Diepen, C.A., Jongbloed,
A.W., Van Keulen, H., Changhe Lu and Roetter, R.P., 2003. Urban and peri-
urban agricultural production in Beijing municipality and its impact on water
quality. Alterra Report 757, ISSN 1566-7197, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Kamphuis et al., 2004. Agriculture and water in Shunyi district, Beijing. Results of a
Rapid Diagnostic Appraisal. Alterra report 950, Alterra, Wageningen, 102 pp.
Vlaming et al., 2004. Agriculture and water in Shunyi district. Results of NUTMON
farm management survey. RMO-Beijing Project report no. 1, Alterra, Wageningen,
41 pp.
For more details, see RMO Beijing (LNV-DLO-IC) documentation website:
www.rmo-beijing.alterra.nl or via www.splu.nl
2) What are policy-relevant findings of the project for Dutch and for Southern
policymakers?
(a) From study on Agricultural Production and Water Quality in Beijing municipality
(see above, Van Diepen et al. 2003):
The review of water use and water resources for Beijing Municipality indicates that
current water consumption is much higher than water supply and that consequently
groundwater levels have strongly dropped. This indicates the need for changes such
as water saving especially in agriculture, more wastewater treatment and use of
regenerative water, and more run-off interception for use. In the long term, the water
supply may be increased by water diversion from the Yangtze river.
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