FILTER
Displaying 61 - 70 of 77 publications
This paper extends the basic model of Fausmann, and theoretically analyzes how forest tenure reform, tax reform, and market development affect timber supply. By using the survey data of a village…
1 July 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaAiming to alleviate rural poverty, stimulate investment in forests, and improve forest conservation, the Chinese government set forth a policy leading to small private holdings of previously village…
30 April 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaClimate change has brought issues of deforestation and forest land governance to the forefront. It is now widely accepted that deforestation and must be addressed in order to effectively reduce…
31 January 2011 | Discussion Paper | China(Submitted to State Forest Administration, PR.China) Abstract: China’s state-owned forest sector has been through and still facing with great challenges for a long period. Since 1986, the State…
25 January 2011 | Policy Brief | ChinaChina 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…
1 October 2010 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaScholars have suggested that in China centralized environmental policymaking may be decoupled from idiosyncratic local implementation, and thus have questioned the outcomes. This paper fills a gap in…
10 July 2010 | Discussion Paper | ChinaThis paper uses a 2003 household survey to examine implementation and impacts of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program. We find that land targeting has been strongly influenced by program goals, but…
1 February 2010 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaThis study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain-for-Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the developing world. Using a…
21 January 2010 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaWith decentralization experiments occurring in the Chinese forestry sector, the authors used a survey-based choice experiment to investigate farmers’ preferences for various property-rights attributes…
22 December 2008 | EfD Discussion Paper | China, Sweden