When should households be compensated for land-use restrictions? A decision-making framework for Chinese forest policy

Land Use Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 402-412

  Mullan, Katrina ^a   Kontoleon, Andreas ^b   Swanson, Tim ^c   Zhang, Shiqiu ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Graduate Institute   (Switzerland)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bivariate Tobit; China; Compensation; Forest lands; Natural Forest Protection Programme; Property rights

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMPENSATION SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY POLICY; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE PLANNING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURE CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGULATORY APPROACH; WELFARE IMPACT;

CHINA;

EID: 78049447416     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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