China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform and the Future of the Giant Panda

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 251-261

  Yang, Biao ^a   Busch, Jonah ^b   Zhang, Li ^c   Ran, Jianghong ^a   Gu, Xiaodong ^d   Zhang, Wen ^e   Du, Beibei ^a,f   Xu, Yu ^g   Mittermeier, Russell A ^f  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Sichuan Wildlife Management Station   (China)

^e Institute of Sichuan Forestry Inventory and Planning   (China)

^f Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^g PINGDINGSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Collective forest tenure reform; Conservation policy; Eco compensation; Giant panda

Indexed keywords

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 84940436325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12143     Document Type: Article

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