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  1. Library Resource
    Regulations
    China, Eastern Asia, Asia

    These Regulations are enacted in order to regulate the activities and consolidate the achievements of restoring farmland to forest, to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the parties restoring farmland to forest, to optimize the industrial structures of rural areas and to improve the environment.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    China

    This report represents a further chapter
    in the dialogue between the World Bank and the People's
    Republic of China about how to promote economic growth and
    protect China's environment. There are three
    cross-cutting issues that keep recurring throughout the
    analysis. These issues characterize the environmental
    management challenge over the next decade: First, the
    environmental agenda is becoming so complex and large that

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    Clean, safe energy for rural areas is an
    important component of green growth and sustainable
    development. Biogas could be an important contributor, if
    its record in reality lives up to its expected potential.
    This paper provides a preliminary assessment of biogas use
    by smallholder farmers in rural China, using data collected
    from 2,700 households in five provinces. The authors find
    that user satisfaction is high, and environmental and

  4. Library Resource
    China Forest Policy : Deepening the Transition, Broadening the Relationship cover image
    Reports & Research
    March, 2012
    China

    A pattern of forest area loss followed
    by a period of reforestation is representative of the forest
    transition process. Forest transition has been observed in
    many countries and is a feature of the development process.
    China reached its inflection point earlier and faster than
    most other countries that have gone through the transition.
    The report describes the success of reforms to forest
    resource tenure in collective forest areas. These reforms,

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    China

    While polluted surface water is
    encountered across most of China, few economic valuation
    studies have been conducted on water quality changes.
    Limited information about the economic values associated
    with those potential water quality improvements or
    deteriorations is a disadvantage for making proper choices
    in water pollution control and clean-up activities. This
    paper reports an economic valuation study conducted in

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    China, Gabon

    Rapid economic growth in China has
    boosted its demand for commodities. At the same time, many
    commodity sectors have experienced declining demand from
    high-income northern economies. This paper examines two
    hypotheses of the consequences of this shift in final
    markets for the organization of global value chains in
    general, and for the role played in them by southern
    producers in particular. The first is that there will be a

  7. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    China, Global

    China has an ancient tradition of
    hydraulic engineering but in the past half century the
    intensity of exploitation of water resources has accelerated
    as a result of population and economic growth. The three
    major issues for Chinese water management are water
    shortages, flood control and pollution. The World Commission
    on Dams noted that since 1949 the number of large dams in
    China had increased from 22 to 22,000, almost half the

  8. Library Resource
    October, 2014
    China

    This case study is one of six
    evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's
    1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Brazil,
    Cameroon, Costa Rica, India, and Indonesia) complement a
    review of the entire set of lending and nonlending
    activities of the World Bank Group and the Global
    Environment Facility. This OED study finds that while
    China's forest program was highly successful, much

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    China, United States of America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia

    Leyendo el informe titulado: “El verdadero costo de los agrocombustibles Alimentación,bosques y clima”, podremos descubrir cuán ilógicos, inapropiados y directamente contraproducentes pueden ser estos biocombustibles; cómo están ya trastornando a miles de familias alrededor del mundo, que se ven desalojadas para dar paso a plantaciones de“biomasa”; cómo vastas áreas de bosques están siendo destruidas para plantar palma aceitera, maíz y otros productos oleaginosos, y cómo asoma en el horizonte el uso generalizado de plantas y árboles transgénicos que amenazan la salud de los bosques naturale

  10. Library Resource
    Regulations
    China, Eastern Asia, Asia

    The purpose of these Measures is to strengthen and regulate the activities and consolidate the achievements of restoring farmland to forest projects, to improve the ecological environment, and to ensure the economic development and income increase of farmers and herdsmen in the project areas. The Measures are composed of 25 articles. The overall plan and the annual implementation scheme on restoring farmland to forest shall be worked out by the competent forestry authority of the regional government and shall include farmland listed in article 7.

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