Bibliography: Economic Development -- Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China

Chen, Guojie. 2000. "Economic Conditions and Approaches to Development in Mountain Regions in South Central China ." Mountain Research and Development 20(4): 300-305.

Dong, Henqiu, ed. 2002. Successful Exploration of International Cooperation on Poverty Alleviation: Research and Action of Yunnan Upland Management Project. Kunming , Yunnan : Yunnan Sciences and Technology Press.

Economy, Elizabeth . 2002. " China 's Go West Campaign: Ecological Construction or Ecological Exploitation." China Environmental Series 5: 1-11.

Hansen, Mette Halskov. 1999. "The Call of Mao or Money? Han Chinese Settlers on China 's South-western Borders." The China Quarterly 158: 394-413.

Hatley, Tom and Michael Thompson. 1985. "Rare Animals, Poor People, and Big Agencies: A perspective on Biological Conservation and Rural Development in the Himalaya ." Mountain Research and Development 5(4): 365-377.

Abstract:

In earlier issues of Mountain Research and Development (Vo. 5, Nos. 2 and 3), Thompson and Warburton developed an institutional approach to development in the Himalayan region: an approach that, in treating the institutions and the perceptions they generate as the facts, largely dissolved away the physical constraints in a sea of uncertainty. In this article, we try to complete the exploratory circle by brining nature - the physical constraints - back into our cultural picture. All institutions, sooner or later, bump against these constraints; the local farmers sooner, the international agencies later. Learning - readjustments in systems of knowledge - then takes place. Nature, in effect, forces the different systems knowledge that are promoted by different institutions into conversation with one another. The present challenge is to convert that conversation from monologue to dialogue.

Huang, Jikun and Scott Rozelle. 1995. "Environmental Stress and Grain Yields in China ." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77(4) 853-864.

Holland , Lorien. 1999. "Flower Power: Dutch Farmer Brings Tulips to the Tibetan Plateau." Far Eastern Economic Review 162(29): 46.

Ning, Datong , Huaiyu Li and Xiaosong Yang. 1994. "Particulates pollution management and economic analysis of small rural enterprises in mountain areas: A case study of Wenquan town in China ." Environmental Management 18(2): 175-181.

Parish, William L., Xiaoye Zhe and Fang Li. 1995. "Nonfarm Work and the Marketization of the Chinese Countryside." China Quarterly O(143): 697-730.

Abstract

This article examines the extent to which labour markets are emerging in the Chinese countryside, focusing on nonfarm work, and whether women participate in those new markets. The examination is based on a 1993 survey that provides new detail of types of work, employment channels, migration and income.

Rozelle, Scott, Gregory Veeck and Jikun Huang. 1997. "The Impact of Environmental Degradation on Grain Production in China , 1975-1990." Economic Geography 73(1): 44-66.

Abstract

The sluggish rate of growth for China 's grain production during the past decade is a major concern for agricultural planners. At the national level, the average rate of production fell to 1.8 percent per year from 1985 to 1990, after an average growth rate of 4.7 percent per year from 1978 to 1984. Supplies and application rates of critical farm inputs during 1985 to 1990 reached record levels, but had a disappointing effect on both yields and gross production. We hypothesize that environmental degradation has had a major effect on grain production in many of China 's agricultural areas. In this article, we introduce a nationwide fixed effect grain-yield function which incorporates both traditional input variables and an additional set of variables that reflect trends in environmental degradation at the provincial level. The model is estimated using time-series data for the period from 1978 to 1990. The analysis suggests that environmental degradation may have cost China as much as 5.7 million metric tons of grain per year in the late 1980s. Results also indicate that the projected losses to environmental stress are not evenly distributed throughout China , but that regions which considerable amounts of marginal land into cultivation during the earliest years of the reform period now face the greatest problems. Xinjian and Gansu in the Northwest, the Loess Plateau provinces, and Yunnan and Guizhou AR in the Southwest reported stagnant production despite significant increases in technical inputs. We conclude that this stagnation should be credited to the increasing degradation of agricultural land in these areas.

Tulachan, Pradeep M. 2001. "Mountain Agriculture in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya: A Regional Comparative Analysis." Mountain Research and Development 21(3): 260-267.