Forest transitions in Chinese villages: Explaining community-level variation under the returning forest to farmland program

Land Use Policy

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages 245-257

  Zhang, Zhiming ^a   Zinda, John Aloysius ^b   Li, Wenqing ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

China; Community; Forest transitions; Land use and land cover change; Payments for environmental services; Rural development

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; VILLAGE;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 85014768916     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.016     Document Type: Article

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