China’s Grain for Green Program

dc.contributor.author	Yuan, Zhen
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-26T08:30:55Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-22T06:48:38Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-26T08:30:55Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-22T06:48:38Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-319-11505-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/58006
dc.description	China has always had a problem of inadequate supply, low quality, and uneven geographic distribution of forest resources. However, the second half of the twentieth century saw the greatest deforestation in the country’s history, as the rapid increase in the nation’s population, coupled with rapid economic development, resulted in enormous consumption of forest resources. Forest coverage decreased from 30–40 % in 1949 to about 10 % in the late 1990s. By the end of the twentieth century, while China’s population accounted for 22 % of the world’s population, the forest area in China was only taking up 4.1 % of the world’s land mass, and the stocking volume was merely 2.9 % of the world’s total (Lei 2002). This was clearly not suffi cient to meet the production and livelihood needs of the country. However, even more pressing were the environmental problems that decades of deforestation had created.
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer	en_US
dc.subject	Program	en_US
dc.title	China’s Grain for Green Program	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US