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How Sustainable Is Government-Sponsored Desertification Rehabilitation in China? Behavior of Households to Changes in Environmental Policies

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  • Ning Liu
  • Lihua Zhou
  • J Scott Hauger

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This paper undertakes a direct, comprehensive assessment of the long-term sustainability of desertification rehabilitation in China under a plausible but worst case scenario where governmental interventions, in the form of payments for environmental services (PES), will cease. The analysis is based on household behavior as well as experimental data. Our econometric results highlight the main obstacles to the sustainability of rehabilitation programs subsequent to cessation of government intervention, including specific shortfalls in households’ preference for a free ride, budget constraints, attitudes, tolerance of and responsibility for desertification, and dissatisfaction with governmental actions. We conclude that desertification rehabilitation is not sustainable in China without continued governmental intervention. The results of this study are intended to support policy makers as they consider future directions for rehabilitation sustainability.

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  • Ning Liu & Lihua Zhou & J Scott Hauger, 2013. "How Sustainable Is Government-Sponsored Desertification Rehabilitation in China? Behavior of Households to Changes in Environmental Policies," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(10), pages 1-8, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0077510
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077510
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    1. Ya Wang & Lihua Zhou, 2016. "Assessment of the Coordination Ability of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems Development Based on a Set Pair Analysis: A Case Study in Yanchi County, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(8), pages 1-20, August.
    2. Zheng-Hong Kong & Lindsay Stringer & Jouni Paavola & Qi Lu, 2021. "Situating China in the Global Effort to Combat Desertification," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-22, July.
    3. Lihua Zhou & Ya Wang & Guojing Yang, 2018. "Study on the Timely Adjustment of the Grazing Prohibition Policy: Ban or Lift? Empirical Research from Local Government Managers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-18, December.
    4. Jiayi Sun & Deqing Tan, 2023. "Non-cooperative Mode, Cost-Sharing Mode, or Cooperative Mode: Which is the Optimal Mode for Desertification Control?," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 61(3), pages 975-1008, March.

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