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china | Climate change Policy design “Co-benefits” of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies in China: An Integrated Top-Down and Bottom-Up Modeling Analysis This paper describes an integrated modeling approach to combine a top-down, recursive CGE model with a bottom-up, electricity-sector model to simulate two categories of policies: 1) assessment of three national-level environmental tax policies (carbon tax, fuel tax, and output tax), and 2) analysis of several mixed national policies with sectoral-level non-price emission caps. The potential co-benefits for China are significant. In addition, the fuel tax or carbon tax, combined with a sector-specific carbon-emission cap policy would be the most effective in terms of the joint objectives on carbon abatement, health co-benefits, and induced technology change. Jing Cao, Mun S. Ho, and Dale W. Jorgenson, "“Co-benefits” of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies in China: An Integrated Top-Down and Bottom-Up Modeling Analysis", EfD Discussion Paper 08-10, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. April 2008.

china | Agriculture Forestry Incomplete Property Rights, Exposure to Markets and the Provision of Environmental Services in China This paper uses data from a 2003 rural survey to examine the determinants of household provision of environmental services under China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), the largest payment for environmental services program in the developing world. Bennett, M., A. Mehta, and J. Xu. 2008. "Incomplete Property Rights, Exposure to Markets and the Provision of Ecosystem Services in China". Working paper, Environmental Economics Program in China.

china eeu sweden | Forestry Economic Growth and the Natural Environment: The Example of China and Its Forests since 1978 Forest data from the recent period of rapid growth in China show interesting macroeconomic and population impacts on the forest. It makes a theoretical argument for separating forests into managed and natural forests, administered by state or private agents. The paper’s regressions suggest that declining rural populations accompany forest recovery and that natural forest is first drawn down as incomes rise, but then recovers when incomes continue to increase above some level. William F. Hyde, Jiegen Wei, and Jintao Xu, "Economic Growth and the Natural Environment: The Example of China and Its Forests since 1978", EfD Discussion Paper 08-11, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. April 2008.

china | Forestry Household Income Growth, Diversification and the Implicit Costs of Reform: The Case of China’s State Forest Sector As with other components of its receding planned economy, China’s state forestry sector faces growing pressure to reform, restructure and liberalize, with policymakers considering the tradeoffs between the shorter-term social welfare impacts versus the longer-term goals of economic and environmental sustainability. Bennett, M., X. Jiang, and J. Xu. 2008. "Household Income Growth, Diversification and the Implicit Costs of Reform: The Case of China’s State Forestry Sector". Working paper, Environmental Economics Program in China.

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