Privatization or communalization: A multi-level analysis of changes in forest property regimes in China
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He, Jun
Kebede, Bereket
Martin, Adrian
Gross-Camp, Nicole
Date Issued
August 2020
Abstract
Over recent decades, the Chinese government has invested heavily in improving the country's forest tenure system through the Collective Forest Tenure Reform. This reform has primarily focused on privatization of collectively-owned forests, which has been perceived to improve effective forest management by providing incentives to farmers. This paper documents results of the Collective Forest Tenure Reform and the factors that have shaped these results through a multi-level analysis: at the national, regional, community and individual levels. It was found forest privatization implemented through the tenure reform was much less than what government expected. Instead, as shown in illustrative case-studies, people intend to retain the forest as common property in a way that creates a complex communal forest management system. The paper argued that while it is good the government is willing to improve forest tenure security for local people, there is a need to better consider the local perceptions of the tenure reform policy's effectiveness and efficiency, and justice in forest management, and to understand the complexity of the pre-existing communal forest management system that exists throughout the country.
Journal
Ecological Economics
Department
Environmental Science / Studies
Citation
He, Jun, Bereket Kebede, Adrian Martin, and Nicole Gross-Camp. "Privatization Or Communalization: A Multi-Level Analysis of Changes in Forest Property Regimes in China." Ecological Economics 174, (Aug, 2020): 106629. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106629. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106629.
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Elsevier
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DOI
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106629
ISSN
0921-8009
1873-6106
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