Rural institutional settings and policies have played an essential role in shaping China's
rural energy system. Based on a mix of 275 rural energy policies and extensive literature …

Land degradation, as a threat to smallholders in the tropics, attracts less attention than other
global challenges. In addition, gaps between scientific understandings of land degradation …

A series of fundamental and market-oriented reforms since 1978 have dramatically
reshaped China's agricultural sector, which had been sluggish during the socialist period …

In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty.
However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even …

Do informal institutions, rules, and norms created and enforced by social groups promote
good local governance in environments of weak democratic or bureaucratic institutions …

In the first systematic documentation of the pattern and processes of land development
taking place in China in the last two decades George CS Lin advocates a fresh and …

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic
change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late …

This article examines the evolution of China's land system in the past two decades. Since
the early 1980s, China has altered its land use arrangements and introduced new …

Recently the expansion of urban-rural income inequality and the rapid growth of fossil-
energy consumption have become two significant challenges China should address to …

China's land reform in 1978–84 unleashed rapid growth in farm output and household
income. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in …