Background Farming on sloping lands has historically led to forest loss and degradation in
China, which coupled with unsustainable timber extraction activities, was deemed …

Forest restoration at large scales, or landscapes, is an approach that is increasingly relevant
to the practice of environmental conservation. However, implementation remains a …

" How to build a more just world and save the planet.... We should all heed Brown's advice."—
Bill Clinton In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival …

The wake-up call will come, Brown believes, when 1.3 billion Chinese consumers with an
$80 billion trade surplus start competing with Americans for US grain, driving up food prices …

Although a few texts on forest hydrology are available, they cover very little, if any,
background on water resources. On the other hand, books dealing with water resources do …

China has always had a problem of inadequate supply, low quality, and uneven geographic
distribution of forest resources. However, the second half of the twentieth century saw the …

The dominant narrative in a growing literature about China's environment conceptualizes a
series of recent large-scale ecological construction projects, particularly in western China …

China has undertaken several major programs of terrestrial ecosystem restoration (ERPs) in
recent years, including the Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP) and the Sloping Land …

We present an integrated modeling framework for simulating land-use decision making
under the influence of payments for ecosystem services. The model combines agent-based …

Modern forestry is gradually moving towards man-made forests on a large scale. Plantations
with advanced forestry system have been introduced with the goal of sustainable forestry …