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

Economists advocate that the billions of public dollars spent on conservation be allocated to
achieve the largest possible social benefit. This is “cost-effective conservation”—a process …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) is the largest land retirement/
reforestation program in the developing world, having the goal of converting 14.67 million …

Ecological restoration policies and their implementation are influenced by ecological and
socioeconomic drivers. Top-down approach-based spatial planning, emphasizing …

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 …

This study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for
Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in 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 …

Chinese state authorities have successfully accelerated afforestation over large areas
through the Returning Farmland to Forest Program (RFFP). However, variation in the …

Landscape change caused by ecological restoration projects has both positive and negative
influences on human livelihoods, yet surprisingly little research on the cultural …