Experts' perceptions of the sloping land conversion program in the Loess Plateau, China

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.021

	Experts' perceptions of the sloping land conversion program in the Loess Plateau, China
	Qu, Mei 1; Liu, Guangzhe 2; Lin, Yin 3; Driedger, Erika 4; Peter, Zsuzsanna 4; Xu, Xiaoqian 2; Cao, Yang 5,6
刊名	LAND USE POLICY
	2017-12-01
卷号	69 页码:204-210
关键词	Content analysis Participatory planning Compensation mechanisms Ecological restoration
ISSN号	0264-8377
DOI	10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.021
通讯作者	Cao, Yang(yang.cao@nwsuaf.edu.cn)
英文摘要	China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) is the world's largest payment for ecosystem services program for improving ecological conditions and farmers' livelihood. Communicating the SLCP outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups in ecological, socio-economic, political and institutional contexts can facilitate the effective implementation of the new round of the SLCP. Experts from various fields involved in the SLCP have developed good connections with governments, agencies, and farmers; therefore they can play an invaluable role in informing urgent policy changes. This study is based upon 24 interviews with the SLCP experts with the aims of assessing their perceptions of ecological, economic, political and social impacts of the SLCP on the Loess Plateau of China, and then gathering their policy recommendations to ensure that the new round of the SLCP would be implemented efficiently. Content analysis based on the grounded theory is used in present study. Judging from expert-based consensual statements from this study's interviews, the main concerns about the first round of the SLCP on the Loess Plateau are that the dramatic increase in the farmer's income and livelihood is mainly from off-farm sources rather than the SLCP subsidy, that equitable government compensation is dependent on the outcome of the SLCP, that the aggressive SLCP causes soil drought which have negative effects on ecological restoration, and that the stakeholders' interaction could be improved. Based on the analyses of the experts' interviews, the recommendations are summarised as follows: strengthening the farmers' environmental awareness and vocational skills, establishing multi-source financial supports and flexible compensation mechanisms, establishing participatory planning that requires stakeholder involvement especially farmers and insisting that scientific studies on the ecological restoration of the Loess Plateau must be shared with local governments and farmers.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[71303186] ; Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of Northwest A F University[Z109021505]
WOS关键词	ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ; HOUSEHOLD INCOME ; YUNNAN PROVINCE ; PERSPECTIVES ; IMPACTS ; PAYMENT ; IMPLEMENTATION ; CONSERVATION ; DIVERSITY ; KNOWLEDGE
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000414881200021
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of Northwest A F University
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/61011]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Cao, Yang
作者单位	1.Northwest A&F Univ, Ctr Nat Resource & Environm Econ & Management, Coll Econ & Management, Yangling 712100, Peoples R China 2.Northwest A&F Univ, Coll Forestry, Yangling 712100, Peoples R China 3.Auburn Univ, Sch Forestry & Wildlife Sci, Auburn, AL 36848 USA 4.Univ Eastern Finland, Sch Forest Sci, Joensuu 80101, Finland 5.Northwest A&F Univ, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming Loess P, Yangling 712100, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci & Minist Water Resources, Inst Soil & Water Conservat, Yangling 712100, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Qu, Mei,Liu, Guangzhe,Lin, Yin,et al. Experts' perceptions of the sloping land conversion program in the Loess Plateau, China[J]. LAND USE POLICY,2017,69:204-210.
APA	Qu, Mei.,Liu, Guangzhe.,Lin, Yin.,Driedger, Erika.,Peter, Zsuzsanna.,...&Cao, Yang.(2017).Experts' perceptions of the sloping land conversion program in the Loess Plateau, China.LAND USE POLICY,69,204-210.
MLA	Qu, Mei,et al."Experts' perceptions of the sloping land conversion program in the Loess Plateau, China".LAND USE POLICY 69(2017):204-210.