Perspective and Framework of an Innovative Research Project on the Hydrological Water Cycle and Water Resources Management in the Yellow River Basin

摘要

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) is a cooperative inter - university research institute, established in 2001, in Kyoto, under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Spoils, Science, and Technology (MEXT) with the aim of fundamentally solving global environmental problems. RIHN has launched some integrated research projects, since 2002. One of them is the Research Project on " Recent rapid change of water circulation in the Yellow River and its effects for environment" (hereafter, it is referred to the RIHN -