Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China

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Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China

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Sylvie Demurger () (HIEBS - Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy - The Hong Kong University, GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - CNRS : UMR5824 - Université Lumière - Lyon II - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines)
Weiyong Yang () (University of International Business and Economics (Beijing) - University of International Business and Economics (Beijing))

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Abstract

This paper uses provincial macro-data from the mid 1980s onwards to investigate the determinants of land-use choice in rural China, by paying particular
attention to the decision to plant trees as competing with agriculture. The evidence supports the importance of economic motivations in the afforestation decision. A profitseeking behavior is found to be at stake in the decision to plant trees, which is made according to both the relative profitability of forestry against agriculture, and their relative risks. Afforestation is also found to strongly depend on the pressure upon land as well as
on household wealth.

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Paper provided by HAL in its series Post-Print with number halshs-00120383_v1.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Publication status: Published, Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 629-649
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Sylvie Demurger & Hou Yuanzhao & Yang Weiyong, 2007. "Forest management policies and resource balance in China: an assessment of the current situation," Post-Print halshs-00144898_v1, HAL. [Downloadable!]
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- Sylvie Démurger & Yang Weiyong & Hou Yuanzhao, 2007. "Forest management policies and resource balance in China: an assessment of the current situation," Working Papers 0712, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Université Lyon 2, Ecole Normale Supérieure. [Downloadable!]

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