China has responded to a national land-system sustainability emergency via an integrated
portfolio of large-scale programmes. Here we review 16 sustainability programmes, which …

中国正处于经济转型与社会发展的关键时期, 土地利用面临着巨大的压力和挑战,
土地利用结构失衡凸显, 各类用地矛盾日趋激烈, 由此引发的土地利用冲突问题日益受到重视 …

Quantifying the dynamics of land use change is critical in tackling global societal challenges
such as food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Here we analyse the dynamics …

Intense grazing may lead to grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, but it is
difficult to predict where this will occur and to quantify it. Based on a process-based …

The rapid advancement of urbanization and industrialization has led to the continuous
strengthening of multi-functionality of land use. The overlapping, crowding, agglomeration …

In light of Harris (2010) finding insufficient evidence to assert a causal linkage between any
of the seven previously proposed causative factors and grassland degradation on the …

A series of Ecological Construction Programs have been initiated to protect the condition of
grasslands in China during recent decades. However, grassland degradation is still severe …

Vulnerability analysis is important for enhancing sustainability, especially for highly
interlinked pastoral socio-ecological systems. This study presents a modified …

Abstract The Grassland Ecological Protection Award Policy (GEPAP) is the largest payment
for ecosystem services (PES) program targeting grasslands in China. It subsidizes …

This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to
emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest …