World natural and cultural heritage is a humacivilizatiotreasure which formed through the multiple roles of the long-time geologically historical evolutioand the humaactivities. With the populatiocontinuously growing, its effect to the environment gets worse and worse, at the same time the natural and cultural heritage has to face the threats of modernization. Iorder to strengthethe research and protectioof natural and cultural heritage, UNESCO had passed the 'world natural and cultural heritage conservatiolaw' iNovember, 1972 (World Heritage Convention) which received positive responses from many countries.To some extent, natural and cultural heritage conservatioshows the degree of civilizatioprogress and the development level of education, science and technology and culture of one country. Being the world cultural heritage, it castrengthethe visibility of one country, one region, one city, evemaking some unknowareas famous ione night. Particularly, it was worthy of note that carrying out the heritage conservatioeducatiocontributes to reinforcement of humabeings' identity and pride to the world's natural resources and their owculture, and establishes the nation's self-esteem and self-confidence. Meanwhile it teaches them how to get along with other culture around the world. Loving the nature and enhancing the awareness of environmental protectioand sustainable development are playing airreplaceable role imaintaining the world peace and promoting the modevelopment of all countries.
Part I Articles Understanding Agricultural Heritage Sites as Complex Adaptive Systems: The Challenge of Complexity Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) of China: The Challenge of Complexity iResearch Challenges and Countermeasures for the Sustainable Developmentof Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems inChina Resilience of the Hani Rice Terraces System to Extreme Drought Exploring the State of Retentioof Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) ia Hani Rice Terrace Village, SouthwestChina Standards of Ecological Compensatiofor Traditional Ecoagriculture: Taking Rice-Fish System iHani Terrace as anExample Conserving Agricultural Heritage Systems through Tourism: Exploratioof Two Mountainous Communities iChina Progress and Prospects iTourism Research oAgricultural Heritage Sites Evaluatioof Tourism Water Capacity iAgricultural Heritage Sites Analyzing Environmental Stress Counter-measures iAgricultural Heritage Sites iChina Typical Water-land UtilizatioGIAHS iLow-Iying Areas: TheXinghua DuotiaAgrosystem Example iChina Spatial Variability Analysis of Soil Nutrients Based oGIS andGeo-statistics: A Case Study of Yisa Township, Yunnan, China Traditional Agroforestry Systems: One Type of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems The QingyuaMushroom Culture System as Agricultural Heritage Part II Abstracts Agricultural Heritage Research and ConservatioPractices:Progress and Perspectives Correctly Handle the Five Relationships iAgricultural Heritage Protection The Chinese Agricultural Heritage Protectioand Utilizatioof Cross-industry Participatiointo the Era of 'List' Protectioand Development of Chinese Agricultural Heritage Study othe RelatioBetweeAgrocultural Heritage Protectioand Regional Economic, Social Development: Taking Xinghua's DuotiaiJiangsu Province as aExample Research oEcosystem Services Value of Ancient Torreya grandis iKuaiji Mountain Soil Stoichiometric Ratio and Its Effect oCarboRelease Potential of jasminum sambac Plantations iFuzhou Isolatioand Identificatioof Root Endophytic and Rhizosphere Bacteria of Rice Landraces iYuanyang Terrace, China Effect of Enhanced UV-B RadiatiooCH4 Emissiofrom Paddy Field iYuanyang Hani Terr Mineral Elements iLeaves and Seeds of Torreya grandis'Merrillii' during Seed Development Ecosystem-Service-Based Ecological Carrying Capacity: Concept, Content, Assessment Model and Application Ecological Stoichiometry Characteristics of Soil Carbon, Nitrogeand Phosphorus ithe Tea Gardeof Drum Mountain Monitoring and Evaluatioof Agricultural Heritage and Its Framework DesigBased oInternational Experiences The Smallholder Economy for the Hani Rice Terraces Sustaining Millennium The Survival and Industrial Development of Tourism: A Study othe Protectioand Utilizatioof Agricultural Heritages Tourism Resources Utilizatioof Different Types of Agricultural Heritage Systems Study othe Differences of Disaster Risk Cognitioithe Tourism Community: A Case of Two Types Community of Hani Rice Terraces The Agricultural Cultural Heritage Tourism Resources Potential Evaluatioto Terraces Development of Rice-Fish System: Today and Tomorrow Spatial Patterof AdaptatioPotential of Household Agriculture to Droughts iSemi-Arid Regions of China Calculatioof Price Compensatioof Agriculture Products ithe Period of Organic ConversioiAgricultural Heritage Sites-Taking Paddy Rice of Hani Terrace iHonghe County of YunnaProvince as aExample Evaluatioof Ecological Footprint and Ecological Capacity of Hani Terrace Heritage Area -A Case Study iQuanfuzhuang Village of Yuanyang County Appficatioand Perspectives of GIS iField of Agricultural Heritage