The impact of China's Priority Forest Programs on rural households' income mobility

Land Use Policy

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 237-248

  Liu, Can ^a   Wang, Sen ^b   Liu, Hao ^a   Zhu, Wenqing ^a  

^a China National Forestry Economics and Development Research Center   (China)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest economics; Income mobility; Policy; Priority Forest Programs; Rural development

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 84871921172     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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