Soil bio-and eco-engineering in China: past experience and future priorities

A Stokes, R Sotir, W Chen, M Ghestem - Ecological engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
China has the world's longest history of soil bioengineering, with the first mention of giant
fascines to control torrential floodwaters dating from over 2000 BC. However, soil …

[BOOK][B] Borderland infrastructures: Trade, development, and control in western China

A Rippa - 2020 - library.oapen.org
Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such
as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two …

Map** the margins of China's global ambitions: Economic corridors, Silk Roads, and the end of proximity in the borderlands

A Rippa - Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is expected to be a “game-
changer” for Pakistan's struggling economy. In China's Yunnan province, the Bangladesh …

Environmental reviews and case studies: Is the returning farmland to forest program a success? Three case studies from Sichuan

CJ Trac, AH Schmidt, S Harrell… - Environmental practice, 2013 - cambridge.org
China's tuigeng huanlin or “Returning Farmland to Forest”(RFFP) program has been widely
praised as the world's largest and most successful payment for ecosystem services program …

The political economy of the Kachin revolutionary household

J Hedström - The Pacific Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Applying a feminist political economy analysis of the Kachin military movement, this article
will be map** women's involvement in the armed uprising since the outbreak of the …

[PDF][PDF] Forest transition, its causes and environmental consequences: empirical evidence from Yunnan of Southwest China

J Xu, Y Yang, J Fox, X Yang - Tropical Ecology, 2007 - cifor-icraf.org
China is experiencing forest transition with its associated environmental and geopolitical
impacts. This paper examines forest transition with empirical evidences experienced over …

One eye on the forest, one eye on the market: multi-tiered regulation of matsutake harvesting, conservation and trade in north-western Yunnan Province

NK Menzies, C Li - Wild Product Governance, 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
During the early 1980s, as China joined the mainstream of international trade networks, the
residents of villages in the mountains of north-western Yunnan province found that there …

Distribution and conservation status of Shortridge's capped langurs Trachypithecus shortridgei in China

LW Cui, YC Li, C Ma, MB Scott, JFA Li, XY He, DH Li… - Oryx, 2016 - cambridge.org
We conducted community interviews and field surveys to determine the distribution and
population of the Endangered Shortridge's capped langur Trachypithecus shortridgei, and …

From self-sufficiency to self-supporting: China's food security under overseas farmland investment and international norms

SY Lin - Scott Y. Lin," From Self-Sufficiency to Self-Supporting …, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
Current studies on China's food security are largely based on the perspective of grain self-
sufficiency, and discuss whether China can feed itself at the national level through its grain …

Co** with pressures of modernization by traditional farmers: a strategy for sustainable rural development in Yunnan, China

C Shiro, JI Furtad, L Shen, M Yan - Journal of Mountain Science, 2007 - Springer
Traditional farming practices conform to sustainable rural livelihoods, while agricultural
modernisation tends to undermine these practices through various perturbations. A case …