An Integrated Assessment of China's Ecological Restoration Programs

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

China’s Ecological Restoration Programs: Initiation, Implementation, and Challenges

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Program Contents

1.3 Implementation and Outcome

1.4 Main Challenges

1.5 Concluding Remarks

References

Assessing China’s Ecological Restoration Programs: What’s Been Done andWhat Remains to Be Done?

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Implementation Efficacy

2.3 SLCP’s Socioeconomic Impacts

2.4 NFPP’s Socioeconomic Impacts

2.5 The Environmental Impacts

2.6 Synthesis and Future Research

References

Methodology for an Integrative Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs

3.1 Introduction

3.2 A Basic Framework

3.3 The Empirical Approach

3.4 Assessing Environmental Impacts and Effectiveness

3.5 Assessing Socioeconomic Impacts

3.6 Data Generation and Acquisition

3.7 Synthesis and Actions

References

Land Cover Changes in Northeast China from the late 1970s to 2004

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Study Area

4.3 Materials and Methods

4.4 Results

4.5 Conclusions and Discussion

References

Modeling the Driving Forces of the Land Use and Land Cover Changes Along the Upper Yangtze River

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Study Site

5.3 Methods

5.4 Data Description

5.5 Estimation Results

5.6 Conclusions and Discussion

Appendix: Definition and Variation of Some Key Variables

References

An Integrative Approach to Modeling Land Use Changes: The Multiple Facets of Agriculture in the Upper Yangtze Basin

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Methods and Data

6.3 Estimated Results

6.4 Conclusions and Implications

References

Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics in the Upper Yangtze Basin from 1975 to 2000

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Methods

7.3 Results and Discussion

7.4 Summary

References

Process-Based Soil Erosion Simulation on a Regional Scale: The Effect of Ecological Restoration in the Chinese Loess Plateau

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Study Site

8.3 Method and Material

8.4 Simulation Results

8.5 Conclusions and Discussion

Appendix 1: The MMF Method

Appendix 2: Imagery Processing for Estimating Land- Cover Changes

References

Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraintsand Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain forGreen Program on Rural Households in China

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The Grain for Green Program

9.3 Data

9.4 Identification Strategy

9.5 Effect of the Grain for Green Program on Off-Farm Labor

9.6 Heterogeneous Program Effect on Off-Farm Labor

9.7 Conclusion

9.8 Appendix: Assessing Recall Bias

References

An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of China’s Land Conversion Program on Farmers’ Income Growth and Labor Transfer

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Theory and Methods

10.3 Site and Data

10.4 Estimated Results

10.5 Conclusions and Discussion

References

An Evaluation of the Impact of the Natural Forest Protection Programme on Rural Household Livelihoods

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Background to the NFPP

11.3 The Policy Evaluation Problem

11.4 Impact of NFPP on Household Incomes

11.5 Results

11.6 Conclusion

References

An Estimation of the Effects of China’s Forestry Programs on Farmers’ Income

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Method and Data

12.3 Empirical Results

12.4 Conclusions and Discussion

References

Agricultural Productivity Changes Induced by the Sloping Land Conversion Program: An Analysis of Wuqi County in the Loess Plateau Region

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Method

13.3 Results

13.4 Conclusions and Discussion

References

Measuring the Aggregate Socioeconomic Impacts of China’s Natural Forest Protection Program

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Impacts of the NFPP

14.3 I–O Models and Data

14.4 Results

14.5 Conclusions and Discussion

References

Index