Forest tenure reform in China: A choice experiment on farmers' property rights preferences

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-487

  Qin, Ping ^a,b,c   Carlsson, Fredrik ^a,b,c   Xu, Jintao ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Department of Environmental Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARMERS ATTITUDE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND REFORM; LAND TENURE; PROPERTY RIGHTS; REFORM PROCESS; TENURE SYSTEM; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CHINA;

EID: 80053265202     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.3.473     Document Type: Article

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