China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program: Does Expansion Equal Success?

By Jintao Xu, Ran Tao, Zhigang Xu, M. Bennett. Land Economics, 2010

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China’s conversion of cropland to forest program: a systematic review of the environmental and socioeconomic effects (2016, unknown): “In line with the general regional trends of economic transformation, land-use changes have been relatively more extensive in the Yellow River Basin (with lower population densities and bigger land plots) as opposed to those more intensive changes in the Yangtze River Basin (higher densities and smal”
China's sloping land conversion program: Institutional innovation or business as usual? (2008, methodology): “Xu et al. (2005) finds that targeting in the 2003 survey sample has generally been determined by plot slope and land quality.”
Meta-analysis of institutional-economic factors explaining the environmental performance of payments for watershed services (2011, methodology): “An example is the Sloping Land Conservation Programme in China, where households in certain parts of the country did not have full autonomy in participation (Bennett 2008).”