China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

China has responded to a national land-system sustainability emergency via an integrated portfolio of large-scale programmes. Here we review 16 sustainability programmes, which invested US$378.5 billion (in 2015 US$), covered 623.9 million hectares of land and involved over 500 million people, mostl...

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Published in:	Nature (London) Vol. 559; no. 7713; pp. 193 - 204
Main Authors:	Bryan, Brett A., Gao, Lei, Ye, Yanqiong, Sun, Xiufeng, Connor, Jeffery D., Crossman, Neville D., Stafford-Smith, Mark, Wu, Jianguo, He, Chunyang, Yu, Deyong, Liu, Zhifeng, Li, Ang, Huang, Qingxu, Ren, Hai, Deng, Xiangzheng, Zheng, Hua, Niu, Jianming, Han, Guodong, Hou, Xiangyang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2018 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	704/172/4081 704/844/685 Agricultural production Agriculture Biodiversity China Conservation of Natural Resources Economic reform Emergency response Environmental degradation Environmental policy Environmental sustainability Famine Farmers Feasibility studies Floods Food Supply Forestry Forests Goals Grassland Grasslands Humanities and Social Sciences Industrial development Land degradation multidisciplinary Natural resources Perspective Population growth Privatization Science Science (multidisciplinary) Soil Sustainability Sustainable agriculture Sustainable development Sustainable Development - economics Sustainable Development - legislation & jurisprudence Sustainable Development - trends Timber Time Factors United Nations Water China United States > US Loess Plateau
ISSN:	0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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