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Key Messages • Overall, the NFPP has a moderately positive effect on forest cover in the program areas. • The NFPP has a greater positive effect on forests held by village households than state-owned…
| Research Brief | China
China’s Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP) is the country’s flagship program for forest conservation and restoration. The program primarily targets state-owned forestland but has also enrolled...
| EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaForests offer the potential for implementing nature-based solutions that provide simultaneously economic, social, and environmental benefits. Forests and Land-use are part of a larger initiative to…
| Report |Blow the lid off: Public complaints, bargaining power, and government responsiveness on social media
Abstract Scholars have demonstrated that governments allow citizens to express their opinions and selectively respond to them, yet little is known about how local governments interact with netizens…
| EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaAbstract This paper evaluates whether the devolution reform of forestland to household management improves allocative efficiency and household welfare through participation in forestland rental…
| Peer Reviewed | ChinaPollution havens create environmental inequality issues. China’s recent policy of directing high-pollution firms to migrate out of its capital, Beijing, offers a case of a pollution haven that was…
| Peer Reviewed | ChinaWe identify the short-term effects of PM2.5 concentrations on medical costs in Beijing by analyzing two datasets: one detailing daily air quality indexes over a four-year period and the other…
| Peer Reviewed | China
Afforestation, that is planting forests increase employment and investments and is beneficial for the environment. But it's important to choose the right type of forest.
| EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaThis paper examines the changing face of China’s imports of fisheries products from the beginning of its market-oriented growth in the early 1990s to the present. We demonstrate how import demand has…
| Peer Reviewed | ChinaSince 2006, China has experienced an unprecedented expansion of its wind and solar power generation capacity and associated manufacturing industries. This rapid growth was supported by large subsidies…
| Peer Reviewed | China