Economic growth, government policies, and forest transition in China

doi:10.1007/s10113-018-1450-3

	Economic growth, government policies, and forest transition in China
	Wang, Jiayue 1,2; Xin, Liangjie 1; Wang, Yahui 3
刊名	REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
	2019-04-01
卷号	19 期号:4 页码:1023-1033
关键词	Forest transition Forest growth in China Driving forces China 1990s
ISSN号	1436-3798
DOI	10.1007/s10113-018-1450-3
通讯作者	Xin, Liangjie(xinlj@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	This paper uses panel data to analyze whether a forest transition has occurred in China and to identify the driving forces behind forest growth in China. We used generalized method of moments (GMM) model to identify forest transition. Analyzing forest transition only at the national level neglects regional differences. The results show that there exists an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship between forest cover and per capita GDP at the provincial level in China. Considering the processes of urbanization, economic development, the abandonment of arable land, and changes in forested area as a whole, it is concluded that a forest transition has already occurred in China and that the turning point took place in the 1990s. Forest restoration in China is affected by both the economic development path and the forest scarcity path. Economic development and strict policies have played important roles in forest recovery in China. In the early period of the forest transition, the forest scarcity path dominated; however, in the long run, the marginalization of agricultural land is the key driver of the forest transition.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571095] ; National Key Basic Research Program of China[2015CB452702]
WOS关键词	ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE ; LABOR SHORTAGE ; LATIN-AMERICA ; DEFORESTATION ; TRADE ; AREAS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
WOS记录号	WOS:000468544400011
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Key Basic Research Program of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/59474]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Xin, Liangjie
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Southwest Univ, Sch Geog Sci, Chongqing 400715, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Jiayue,Xin, Liangjie,Wang, Yahui. Economic growth, government policies, and forest transition in China[J]. REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE,2019,19(4):1023-1033.
APA	Wang, Jiayue,Xin, Liangjie,&Wang, Yahui.(2019).Economic growth, government policies, and forest transition in China.REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE,19(4),1023-1033.
MLA	Wang, Jiayue,et al."Economic growth, government policies, and forest transition in China".REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 19.4(2019):1023-1033.