Social-Ecological Impacts of Concurrent Reservoir Inundation and Reforestation in the Three Gorges Region of China

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-268

  Jim, C Y ^a   Yang, Felix ^b   Wang, Liming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Defarming; Land deconversion; Land cover change; Migrant labor; Population overload; Reforestation; Reservoir inundation; Rural urban migration

Indexed keywords

DAM CONSTRUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; MIGRANT WORKER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REFORESTATION; RESERVOIR; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 77951222641     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045600903550295     Document Type: Article

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