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 …

The rising global scarcity of natural resources increasingly attracts transnational criminal
organizations. Organized crime syndicates diversify into the lucrative business of tropical …

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such
as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two …

Drawing on case studies carried out in the upper watersheds of the Mekong and Salween
Rivers in northwest Yunnan Province, this paper examines two of China's nascent national …

Over 70% of China's timber product imports are supplied by countries in the Asia Pacific
region, and China is the dominant forest product market for many of these countries …

The ecosystem services (ES) concept is an essential tool to promote interregional
conservation and development, especially in landscapes where ecological, economic, and …

Armed conflict and geopolitics are a driving force of Land Use and Land Cover Change
(LULCC), but with considerable variation in deforestation trends between broader and finer …

Over the past two decades, the Yunnan-Myanmar borderlands in Kachin State have become
a major investment frontier for large-scale agribusiness. Chinese private capital, supported …

Many developed countries have gained control of their forest-exploiting industries through
advanced regulatory regimes. But stricter regulation usually displaces forest exploitation into …

As China continues to surge ahead with the world's fastest-growing economy, the Chinese
government and businessmen are increasingly looking toward Southeast Asia as a cheap …