Opportunity cost of water allocation to afforestation rather than conservation of natural vegetation in China

Land Use Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-73

  Zhang, Junze ^a   Zhao, Tingyang ^b   Jiang, Chenchao ^b   Cao, Shixiong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological restoration; Ecosystem services; Environmental policy; Water consumption

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION; WATER USE;

CHINA;

EID: 84942279626     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.09.008     Document Type: Article

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