China's Forest Tenure Reforms: Impacts And Implications For Choice, Conservation, And Climate Change

China's Forest Tenure Reforms: Impacts And Implications For Choice, Conservation, And Climate Change Jintao Xu, Andy White, Uma Lele - Peking University, Rights and Resources Climate change has brought issues of deforestation and forest land governance to the forefront. It is now widely accepted that deforestation and associated forest degradation are responsible for about 17% of total global carbon emissions—with over 70% of these emissions coming from forest burning and clearing in the...

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