Undetermined Center, Non-Working Localities, and Inactive Farmers: The Implementation Failures of China’s Reforestation Program
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English
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2013.
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efforts, retain or delay subsidy delivery, and exaggerate the mortality of trees to its maximum. Rural residents are the core agents in implementing the SLCP. However, an environmental attitude study shows that their participation is not supported by a general perception of an obligation to do so. Their participation in the SLCP are more likely to be motivated by the economic benefits, rather than ecological considerations. Overall, the study suggests that motivational deficiencies with the three key players are the root causes of most implementation failures of the SLCP.
have further explored the reasons for these failures. My research fills this gap by examining the problematic motivations and behaviors of the three key parties involved in the SLCP: the central government, local governments, and individual rural households. The center’s preference to short-term programs has led to high frequency of changes in forestry policies. The induced uncertainty has distorted land owners’ harvesting decisions and has lowered the value of China’s forest output. Government payments may solve this problem by covering the immediate losses, but the policy-induced uncertainty imposes sizeable losses on other agents in the economy. As the mediating agency in the SLCP, local governments have not been properly motivated. A With the burden of paying their own administrative costs and the discretion of interpreting local compliance standards, local governments tend to minimize local forest management
China’s environmental protection efforts are characterized by responsive projects targeting at specific environmental crises. While the responsiveness may induce high efficiency in solving urgent environmental problems in the short run, the lack of careful planning and detailed assessment of environmental impacts pose great challenges to these programs’ long-term success. This study examines the implementation of the largest ecological restoration program in China, the Slop Land Conversion Program (SLCP). While some of them appraise the SLCP as a big success in alleviating environmental problems and offering alternative ways for people to make a living, other field studies revealed extensive implementation failures, including poor targeting, interagency conflicts, inefficient funding allocation, and a high tendency to reconvert to cropping. However, few studies
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