forest policy

Remittance from migrants reinforces forest recovery for China’s reforestation policy

Reforestation Policy & Rural Livelihoods: Migratio & Remittance This study investigates the role remittance play in sustaining forest and livelihoods. The experiment is based on China’s largest payments for ecosystem services policy, Congversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP).

Mechanism of forest policies influence on land-cover/land-use in China

Governance for climate change

Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration

Model Development ABM-CALM: Agent-Based Model for Cropland Abandonment and Labor Migration Overview of ABM-CALM. This paper presents reserach on the development and application of ABM-CALM that simulates bidirectional social-ecological feedbacks.

Understanding the mediating role of labor out-migration in household income generation and distribution under a reforestation policy in rural China

Reforestation Policy & Rural Livelihoods Income inequality is a critical issue of socio-economic development, particularly in rural areas where forest-dependent people are often vulnerable to the intervention of forest policies. This study investigates income distribution and inequality of rural households influenced by China’s largest reforestation policy, the Congversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP).

Understanding human-environment interrelationships under constrained land-use decisions with a spatially explicit agent-based model

Application of Agent-Based Modeling in Human-Environment Interactions ABM-CALM: Agent-Based Model for Cropland Abandonment and Labor Migration Overview of ABM-CALM. This study applies ABM-CALM to explore human-environment interrelationships under constrainted land-use decisions.

Understanding the effects of China’s agro-environmental policies on rural households’ labor and land allocation with a spatially explicit agent-based model

Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China

Telecoupling urbanization and mountainous deforestation between 2000 and 2020: Evidence from Zhejiang Province, China

Divergent social-ecological outcomes of payments for ecosystem services

Related publications reforestaion policy, labor migration, and forest dynamics (Zhang et al. 2020)

Interaction between land use change and labor migration under forest conservation