本书分总论、上篇和下篇三部分。在总论中，基于黄河的特点、当前及今后一个时期面临的形势与问题，确立了维持黄河健康生命的治河目标及其实现途径与方法。在上篇中，从黄河源到黄河口，回答了各河段存在的主要问题。在下篇中，从流域管理的视角，回答了黄河水资源管理与保护、水沙调控体系建设、南水北调西线工程、黄河水权制度和流域生态补偿机制等问题。

Overview

 Strategy of the Yellow River Conservation

Part One

 Chapter 1 Source of the Yellow River

 Chapter 2 Reaches of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia

 Chapter 3 The Loess Plateau

 Chapter 4 Xiaobeiganliu Section

 Chapter 5 Xiaolangdi Reservoir

 Chapter 6 The Lower Reaches of the Yellow River

 Chapter 7 Estuary of the Yellow River

Part Two

 Chapter 8 Management and Protection of the Yellow River Water Resources

 Chapter 9 Water and Sediment Regulation and Control System of the Yellow River

 Chapter 10 The West Route of the South-North Water Transfer Project

 Chapter 11 Yellow River Water Right System

 Chapter 12 The Basin Ecological Compensation Mechanism

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