This is mistaking the weather for the climate. Climate change will affect all industries. It could turn fertile regions into deserts, force farms – and the cities they support – to move faster than topsoil can develop, create storms that can blow down those “carefully ...
To avoid this vicious cycle, China’s poverty eradication policy requires greater management and restoration of arable land in poverty-stricken areas, but it is unknown what impacts it may bring. Therefore, this study examines the impact of policy implementation on arable land by the Difference-in...
The concept of an “intentionally rational decisionmaker” has become a dominant assumption in RDM [21]. For the sake of interpreting settlement behavior, the present study focuses on the understanding of RDM from a behavioral perspective. From this viewpoint, RDM is considered a response to the...
With extensive grassland areas accounting for one-third of the total grassland areas in China, the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most important bases for Chinese grassland livestock husbandry. However, most of its grasslands are alpine grasslands, located above 4000 m in elevation, where the ...