Introduction: As folate deficiency is mainly caused by the dependency on folate-poor staple crops, such as rice, the implementation of rice with a high level of natural folate could be a successful pro-rural and pro-poor intervention strategy to reduce folate deficiencies in China, where about...

Examines procedures and practices adopted during the decommissioning, demolition and disposal of obsolete ships, focusing on occupational safety and health issues and environmental aspects. Reviews existing legal and regulatory tools, assesses previous work undertaken by concerned agencies and...

Tigers have been subject to large and prolonged declines in the wild for several reasons, including poaching. Policies to arrest this decline have been ongoing but marked by failure. One controversial element of the management of tigers is the large captive-breeding facilities in China. This...

On the basis of the previous researches and the ecological footprint theory, we use the cross-sectional data of Chinese energy consumption in 2007 to calculate the regional differences of energy consumption footprint of 30 provinces in China; by using the method of EEF calculation method, we...