Sustainable natural resource use in rural China: Recent trends and policies

China Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 444-460

  Qu, Futian ^a   Kuyvenhoven, Arie ^b   Shi, Xiaoping ^a   Heerink, Nico ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Government policy; Land; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155170809     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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