http://www.efdinitiative.org The Environmental Economics Program in China (EEPC) has three main tasks: building capacity of rigorous economic analysis into environmental policy in China, policy outreach, and graduate education that emphasizes systematic training in modern environmental economics. daily 1 2007-10-02T15:00:42Z http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/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. No publisher vivian 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. Agricultural productivity 2008-04-26T07:39:53Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/household-income-growth-diversification-and-the-implicit-costs-of-reform-the-case-of-china2019s-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. No publisher qianweng 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. Forest management 2008-02-18T16:42:34Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/projects/project-repository/tenure-reform-of-collective-owned-forest This project aims at finishing surveying in 8-10 provinces, establishing a comprehensive database and building an equilibrium model with capacity to analyze Supply, Demand, Trade and Policy Change. No publisher vivian Forest management Policy instruments Tenure 2008-02-01T03:55:13Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/effective-pollution-control-policy-for-china China began enforcing a system of pollution levies in 1982. However, senior environmental officials expressed doubt that this system was improving the environment and, in 1996, they began to place greater reliance on mill closure as the penalty for poor environmental performance. Since then, managers have found means of subverting many of the intended mill closures, and this causes us to return to the question of the abatement efficiency and effectiveness of the levies. No publisher vivian Industry Pollution 2008-04-25T10:52:55Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/plonearticle.2008-01-14.2573026914 This paper studies the impact of the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world, China’s Grain for Green program, on poverty alleviation in rural areas. Based on a large-scale survey, we find that although poor households in rural China were not disproportionately targeted, they have benefited. No publisher vivian Uchida, E., J. Xu, Z. Xu and S. Rozelle. 2007. "Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?". Environment and Development Economics 12(4): 593-620. Poverty reduction strategy Soil conservation 2008-02-11T11:58:47Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/speech-at-oecd-roundtable-for-sustainable-development-january-8-9-paris This is a guest speech when Prof Xu was attending the OECD Roundtable for Sustainable Development, January 8-9, 2007, Paris. No publisher vivian Xu, J. 2007. Speech at OECD Roundtable for Sustainable Development, January 8-9, 2007, paris. Forest management Policy instruments 2008-02-11T12:20:15Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/environmental-policy-and-mill-level-efficiency Understanding relationship between environmental protection and economic development is crucial to form practical environmental policy. At micro level, implementation of environmental regulations often causes production mills adjustment of technology which might leads to change of productive efficiency and cost, which, in turn, determine effort level of mills and even local government in pollution control. No publisher vivian Ji, Y., and J. Xu. 2006. "Environmental Policy and Mill Level Efficiency". Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Sciences) 5(2). Industry Climate policy Regulation 2008-02-11T11:59:43Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/plonearticle.2008-01-14.8053692260 This is a book chapter in Plantations, Privatization, Poverty and Power: Changing Ownership and Management of State Forests, edited by M. Garforth and J. Mayers. Earthscan: London. No publisher vivian Xu, J., and W.F. Hyde. 2005. "From Central Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China". In Plantations, Privatization, Poverty and Power: Changing Ownership and Management of State Forests, edited by M.Garforth and J.Mayers. Earthscan: London. Forest management Policy instruments 2008-02-11T12:12:52Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/research/publications/publications-repository/chinas-sloping-land-conversion-program-does-expansion-equal-success With a total budget of CNY 337 billion (over US$40 billion, the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) is the largest land retirement program in the developing world.. However, on the basis of a 2003 household and village-level survey, we find that though targeting has been strongly influenced by program goals, a lot of low-sloping plots have also been enrolled into the program. No publisher vivian Xu, J., R. Tao, Z. Xu, and M.T. Bennett. 2005. "China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program: Does Expansion Equal Success?". Forest management Policy instruments Soil conservation 2008-04-25T10:39:58Z Article