China S Grain For Green Program

Author : Claudio O. Delang,Zhen Yuan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319115054

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China’s Grain for Green Program by Claudio O. Delang,Zhen Yuan Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive review of Grain for Green, China’s nationwide program which pays farmers to revert sloping or marginal farm land to trees or grass. The program aims to improve the ecological conditions of much of China, and the socioeconomic circumstances of hundreds of millions of people. GfG is the largest reforestation, ecological restoration, and rural development initiative in history, combining the biggest investment, the greatest involvement, and the broadest degree of public participation ever. The book is organised in three sections. Part One reviews the history of land management in China from 1949 to 1998, exploring the conditions that led to the introduction of GfG, and comparing it to other reforestation programs. Part Two offers an overview of GfG, describing the timeline of the program, compensation paid to farmers, the rules concerning land and plant selection, the extent to which these rules were followed, the attitudes of farmers towards the program, and the way in which the program is organized and implemented by various state actors. Part Three discusses the impact of the GfG, from both ecological and socio-economic standpoints, looking at the economic benefits that result from participating in the GfG, the impact of the GfG across local economies, the redistribution of the labor force and the sustainability of the program, in particular the question of what will happen to the converted land when payments to farmers end.

Author : Claudio O. Delang,Zhen Yuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3319115065

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China's Grain for Green Program by Claudio O. Delang,Zhen Yuan Pdf

Author : Jie Li,Shuzhuo Li,Gretchen C. Daily,Marcus Feldman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811563492

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Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China by Jie Li,Shuzhuo Li,Gretchen C. Daily,Marcus Feldman Pdf

The book considers the challenge of poverty and deterioration of the ecological environment in China, particularly in rural areas. Examining key factors such as the overuse of natural resources and the loss of biodiversity in the face of an expanding population and rapidly developing economy. It focuses on examining the frameworks of rural households in poor mountainous areas in rural China, considering their livelihood choices and decision-making processes. It analyses the relationship between these households’ livelihoods and their environment, notably farmers’ attitudes and perceptions towards ecological conservation policies, and their use of forest resources. Cutting across the fields of population studies, sociology, economy and environment, this is an important read for scholars and students interested in how China is dealing with the challenges of natural resources exploitation, sustainable development and social welfare.

Author : Jesse Turiel,Iza Ding,John Chung-En Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004359925

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Environmental Governance in China by Jesse Turiel,Iza Ding,John Chung-En Liu Pdf

This article provides an analytical overview of major works on the topic of environmental governance in China, with a particular emphasis on studies examining policies during the reform era (post-1978).

Author : Joshua Eisenman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231546751

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Red China's Green Revolution by Joshua Eisenman Pdf

China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution that laid the foundation for China’s future rapid growth. Red China’s Green Revolution tells the story of the commune’s origins, evolution, and downfall, demonstrating its role in China’s economic ascendance. After 1970, the commune emerged as a hybrid institution, including both collective and private elements, with a high degree of local control over economic decision but almost no say over political ones. It had an integrated agricultural research and extension system that promoted agricultural modernization and collectively owned local enterprises and small factories that spread rural industrialization. The commune transmitted Mao’s collectivist ideology and enforced collective isolation so it could overwork and underpay its households. Eisenman argues that the commune was eliminated not because it was unproductive, but because it was politically undesirable: it was the post-Mao leadership led by Deng Xiaoping—not rural residents—who chose to abandon the commune in order to consolidate their control over China. Based on detailed and systematic national, provincial, and county-level data, as well as interviews with agricultural experts and former commune members, Red China’s Green Revolution is a comprehensive historical and social scientific analysis that fundamentally challenges our understanding of recent Chinese economic history.

Author : Claudio O. Delang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134851645

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China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems by Claudio O. Delang Pdf

China’s air pollution is infamous. The haze can make it impossible to see buildings across the street, and the pollution forces schools to close and creates health and morbidity problems, in addition to tremendous environmental degradation. However, China also faces another important environmental problem, which is less well-known to the public: that of soil degradation and pollution. This book provides an overview of the problems related to soil degradation and pollution throughout China, examining how and why current policy has fallen short of expectation. It also examines the challenges faced by policy makers as they attempt to adopt sustainable practices alongside a booming and ever-expanding economy. China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems utilizes grey literature such as newspaper articles, NGO reports and Chinese government information alongside academic studies in order to provide an extensive review of the challenges faced by grassroots organizations as they tackle environmental policy failings throughout China. This book will be of great interest to students of environmental pollution and contemporary Chinese studies looking for an introduction to the topics of soil pollution and soil degradation, and for researchers looking for an extensive list of sources and analysis of China's environmental problems more broadly.

Author : Yizhao Yang,Anne Taufen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000532494

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The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim by Yizhao Yang,Anne Taufen Pdf

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Xiaolin Wang,Xiaoying Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811563560

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Towards 2030 – China’s Poverty Alleviation and Global Poverty Governance by Xiaolin Wang,Xiaoying Zhang Pdf

This book assesses the global significance of China’s decade-long campaign to reduce poverty. After showing how the country’s unique approach to poverty alleviation brought about unparalleled progress toward achieving both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors shed light on how China’s experience can help other countries around the globe as they try to permanently rid humanity of the scourge of poverty under ever more challenging social, economic and environmental conditions.

Author : Björn Alpermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136710292

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Politics and Markets in Rural China by Björn Alpermann Pdf

Thirty years have passed since the beginning of the reform era in China which saw important changes in agriculture and rural organizations, but it is clear that certain entrenched legacies from pre-reform China still linger on even after WTO accession, most importantly the key role played by state actors and politics in the development of markets in rural China. Although increasingly diversified markets have emerged for major agricultural inputs and products, their development cannot be understood without taking this role into account. Against this backdrop, the contributors to this book offer a fresh account of rural politics and markets, consciously linking these two realms and highlighting their interconnectedness. The book is organized in three parts addressing respectively markets for agricultural inputs and outputs as well as current policies in rural development. The perspectives adopted link macro- and micro-level analysis in each chapter and thus contribute substantially to our understanding of existing markets. As an original account of rural politics and markets in China this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese politics, economics, development studies and political economy.

Author : Janelle Plummer,John G. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136569258

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Community Participation in China by Janelle Plummer,John G. Taylor Pdf

This important volume provides a source of information on the key issues, including constraints and capacity building, necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. A wealth of case studies are provided by principal Chinese academics and practitioners in forestry, natural resource management, rural development, irrigation and poverty alleviation. At the core, the book is about strengthening local government as a key player in the development of participatory initiatives. It is an invaluable text for development practitioners, donors, researchers and students seeking to understand the opportunities and constraints for participation in China, and for those working to institutionalize participatory processes in a complex rural context.

Author : Runsheng Yin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048126552

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An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs by Runsheng Yin Pdf

China has been undertaking unprecedented ecological restoration efforts to deal with its problems of soil erosion, flooding, dust storms, and habitat loss. While there have been studies of these efforts, questions remain concerning whether they have been effectively implemented, what their induced socioeconomic and ecological impacts are, and how their performance can be improved. Tackling these important questions in an integrated manner, “An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs” is extraordinary for its broad coverage and methodological rigor. It provides a substantial improvement over the conventional approach of simply reporting projects undertaken and accepting uncritically the government assessment, and thus fills an important knowledge gap of the restoration efforts being implemented upon a variety of ecosystems in China.

Author : Liming Wang,John Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429643330

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China's Grain Economy by Liming Wang,John Davis Pdf

This book was originally pubished in 2000. China is the largest developing country in the world and is still heavily based on agriculture. Currently, about 70 per cent of China's total of more than one bilion people live in rural areas, and about half of the total national labour force is involved in agricultural activities. It is clear that agriculture is the foundation for the development of the Chinese national economy. Within agriculture, the grain economy is the most important sector: indeed it has been recognised as a treasure in managing the country by all past Chinese dynasties. Ensuring enough grain supply to meet the demands of such a huge population seems to be a long-term goal for the Chinese government and this book explores whether China will be able to produce enough grain to keep pace with its population increases.

Author : Benedict Stavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : UCSD:31822003063500

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China's Green Revolution by Benedict Stavis Pdf

Author : David Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135096052

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Large-scale Forest Restoration by David Lamb Pdf

Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe. This book explores how forest restoration might be carried out to increase landscape heterogeneity, improve ecological functioning and restore ecosystem services in such landscapes. It focuses on large, landscape-scale reforestation because that is the scale at which restoration is needed if many of the problems that have now developed are to be addressed. It also shows how large-scale forest restoration might improve human livelihoods as well as improve conservation outcomes. A number of governments have undertaken national reforestation programs in recent years; some have been more successful than others. The author reviews these to explore what type of reforestation should be used, where this should be carried out and how much should be done. For example, are the traditional industrial forms of reforestation necessarily the best to use in all situations? How can forest restoration be reconciled with the need for food security? And, are there spatial thresholds that must be exceeded to generate economic and environmental benefits? The book also examines the policy and institutional settings needed to encourage large-scale reforestation. This includes a discussion of the place for incentives to encourage landholders to undertake particular types of reforestation and to reforest particular locations. It also considers forms of governance that are likely to lead to an equitable sharing of the costs and benefits of forest restoration.

Author : Yisheng Zheng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004316041

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Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Special Volume by Yisheng Zheng Pdf

China Environment and Development Review offers an account of the social, economic, institutional and technological factors behind China’s worsening environmental conditions and an evolutionary perspective on efforts both to understand and to address these growing problems.