Since the 1950s, noteworthy farmland abandonment has been occurring in many developed
countries and some developing countries. This global land use phenomenon has …

To address devastating environmental crises and to improve human well-being, China has
been implementing a number of national policies on payments for ecosystem services. Two …

Ecosystem services, the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems, are a powerful lens
through which to understand human relationships with the environment and to design …

Land use transitions and socio-economic transitions jointly drive urban-rural transformation
development in China. Farmland resources are a core element contributing to food security …

Carbon sequestration through ecological restoration programs is an increasingly important
option to reduce the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. China's Grain for …

Does the intensification of agriculture reduce cultivated areas and, in so doing, spare some
lands by concentrating production on other lands? Such sparing is important for many …

During the past decades, overuse of land resources has increasingly contributed to
environmental crises in China. To mitigate wide-spread land degradation, actions have …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) policies compensate individuals or communities for
undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water …

Environmental conditional cash transfers are popular but their impacts are not well
understood. We evaluate land cover and wealth impacts of a federal program that pays …

We investigate a Mexican federal program that compensates landowners for forest
protection. We use matched controls from the program applicant pool to establish …