Impact of China's large-scale ecological restoration program on the environment and society in arid and semiarid areas of China: achievements, problems, synthesis …

S Cao - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Since, 1978, China has pursued some of the world's most ambitious conservation programs,
including the Three Norths Shelter Forest System Project, Grain for Green Project, and the …

Researchers' roles in knowledge co-production: experience from sustainability research in Kenya, Switzerland, Bolivia and Nepal

C Pohl, S Rist, A Zimmermann, P Fry… - Science and public …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Co-production of knowledge between academic and non-academic communities is a
prerequisite for research aiming at more sustainable development paths. Sustainability …

Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies

J Alcamo, J Thompson, A Alexander, A Antoniades… - Sustainability …, 2020 - Springer
The topic of SDG interactions is a relatively new research area with many knowledge gaps.
Some of these gaps are addressed in this summary of a Special Feature of Sustainability …

Decentralization's effects on educational outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia

JP Faguet, F Sanchez - World development, 2008 - Elsevier
The effects of decentralization on public sector outputs are much debated but little agreed
upon. This paper compares the remarkable case of Bolivia with the more complex case of …

Development and testing of a sustainable environmental restoration policy on eradicating the poverty trap in China's Changting County

S Cao, B Zhong, H Yue, H Zeng… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
It is widely accepted that environmental degradation and poverty are linked and that
conservation and poverty reduction should be tackled together. However, success with …

Forging a paradigm shift in disaster science

AT Ismail-Zadeh, SL Cutter, K Takeuchi, D Paton - Natural Hazards, 2017 - Springer
Despite major advancements in knowledge on disaster risks and disasters caused by
natural hazards, the number and severity of disasters are increasing. Convolving natural …

Attitudes of farmers in China's northern Shaanxi Province towards the land-use changes required under the Grain for Green Project, and implications for the project's …

S Cao, C Xu, L Chen, X Wang - Land use policy, 2009 - Elsevier
To restore China's degraded environment, the government launched an environmental
restoration project named the “Grain for Green” Project (GGP) in 1999. From 1999 to 2010 …

Seeing (and doing) conservation through cultural lenses

RB Peterson, D Russell, P West, JP Brosius - Environmental management, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, we first discuss various vantage points gained through the authors' experience
of approaching conservation through a “cultural lens.” We then draw out more general …

Socioeconomic impacts of the billion trees afforestation program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (kpk), Pakistan

N Khan, SJ Shah, T Rauf, M Zada, C Yukun, J Harbi - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the terrestrial ecosystem in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK),
Pakistan, has undergone tremendous destruction. To restore environmental conditions, the …

Co-production of knowledge in multi-stakeholder processes: analyzing joint experimentation as social learning

E Akpo, TA Crane, PV Vissoh… - The Journal of Agricultural …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Changing research design and methodologies regarding how researchers
articulate with end-users of technology is an important consideration in developing …