Policy Making
EEPC actively participates in the process of policy reform in China's forest sector and has been the main force in conducting extensive surveys and rigorous analyses on emerging policy issues. The goal of the EEPC is to help the government make intelligent decisions in the process of decentralization in order to reduce the cost of reform and to set a foundation for the sustainable management of forest resources.
EEPC focuses on applied policy related research. In particular it attempts to identify the areas of environmental policy improvement and address the policy needs in conducting social and economic assessment of ongoing public programs. Currently, EEPC is mainly concentrated on analyzing the process of state forest sector reform and collective forest tenure reform, evaluating the reform performance against the set criteria and providing policy suggestions. Issues under investigation by EEPC include national forest management, forest governance in collective forests, transformation of state-owned forest enterprises, pollution control policy, environmental indicators, water and soil conservation, as well as water resource allocation.
