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China's sloping land conversion program: Institutional innovation or business as usual? [1]

China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) is the largest land retirement/reforestation program in the developing world, having the goal of converting 14.67 million hectares of cropland to forests by 2010 (4.4 million of which is on land with slopes greater than 25

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Michael T. Bennett [2]
Ecological Economics [3]
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Forests [4], Afforestation [5], Public Participation [6], China [7]

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