Forest Resources Protection and Local Population Welfare: Case Studies Comparison from China
Funding
2008-2010 Research Grant from the Chinese Ministry of Education (Program 211), “Sustainable exploitation of natural resources in rural China in a context of globalization”. Coordinator: Yang Weiyong.
2007-2009 Research Grant from Rhône-Alpes Council (CIBLE), “Biodiversity conservation, rural ecology and rural population well-being in China”. Coordinator: Sylvie Démurger.
2006-2007 Programme
franco-chinois de recherches avancées (PRA), French-Sino Association for Scientific
and Technical Research (AFCRST), “Biodiversity conservation, rural ecology and
rural population welfare – the case of Chuanxi (China)”. Coordinators: Sylvie
Démurger and Li Junqing.
2003-2006 Action
Concertée Incitative (ACI), French Ministry of Research, “Forest resources
protection and local population welfare: case studies comparison from China”.
Coordinator: Sylvie Démurger.
2002-2003 Bonus
Qualité Recherche (BQR), University of Clermont I, “Natural resource protection
and rural household behaviour: the case of Labagoumen nature reserve (China)”. Coordinators: Sylvie Démurger and Martin Fournier.
1999-2003 Aide à Projets
Nouveaux (APN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), “Economic
Growth and Sustainable Forest Management in China”. Coordinator: Sylvie Démurger.
Research
team
Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier, Li Junqing, Pascal Marty,
Shen Guozhen, Yang
Weiyong.
Household
survey projects
Forest Use in Rural China: Labagoumen
Survey III. March 2009.
Survey of rural households in
Labagoumen Township, China.
Chinese collaborating organizations:
Beijing University of Forestry.
Funding: Région Rhône-Alpes.
Household questionnaire: French / Chinese
China’s Forest Conservation Policies and
Rural Livelihood: Inner Mongolia Survey. March 2006.
Survey of 476 rural households in Zhuozi
County, Inner Mongolia, China. Survey of 10 villages, 5 townships in the same
county.
Chinese collaborating organizations:
Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and Beijing University of Forestry.
Funding: French Ministry of Research.
Household questionnaire: French / Chinese
Village questionnaire: French / Chinese
China’s Forest Conservation Policies and
Rural Livelihood: Sichuan Survey. March 2005
Survey of 450 rural households in Pingwu and Jiuzhaigou Counties, Sichuan, China. Survey of 12 villages, 4 townships in the same counties.
Chinese collaborating organization:
Beijing University of Forestry.
Funding: French Ministry of Research.
Household questionnaire: French / Chinese
Village questionnaire: French / Chinese
Forest Use in Rural China: Labagoumen
Survey II. December 2003
Survey of 322 rural households in
Labagoumen Township, China. Survey of 10 villages in the same township.
Chinese collaborating organization:
Beijing University of Forestry.
Funding: University of Clermont I (France).
Household questionnaire: French /
Chinese
Forest Use in Rural China: Labagoumen
Survey I. November –
December 2001
Survey of 313 rural households in
Labagoumen Township, China. Survey of 10 villages in the same township.
Chinese collaborating organization:
Beijing University of Forestry.
Funding: CNRS (France).
Household questionnaire: French / Chinese
Research
papers
“Rural poverty and firewood consumption: A case study of rural households in northern China”, Sylvie Démurger & Martin Fournier, China Economic Review, forthcoming, DOI:10.1016/j.chieco.2010.09.009.
“Rural households' decisions towards income diversification: Evidence from a township in norther China”, Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier & Yang Weiyong, China Economic Review, 2010, 21: S32-S44.
“Forest management policies and resource balance in China: an assessment of the current situation”, Sylvie Démurger, Hou Yuanzhao & Yang Weiyong, The Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 17-41.
"Proposed Conservation Landscape for Giant Pandas in the Minshan Mountains, China", Shen Guozhen, Feng Chaoyang, Xie Zongqiang, Ouyang Zhiyun, Li Junqing & Pascal Marty, Conservation Biology, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 1144–1153.
“The Impact of Firewood Collection by Local People on the Distributing of Arbors around the Nature Reserves: A Case Study in Wanglang Nature Reserve for Giant Panda (Sichuan)”, Ge Zhiwei, Xin Wei, Li Junqing & Yang Weiyong, Journal of Ecological Science (in Chinese), Vol. 26, No.1, 2006.
“Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China”, Sylvie Démurger & Yang Weiyong, Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 11, No. 5, October 2006, pp. 629-649.
“Regional Economy and development policies around the natural reserve of Wanglang”, Chen Chunlong & Li Junqing, 2006, Research Journal of Beijing Forestry University (in Chinese), Vol. No. 11, pp. 69-72.
“Forest protection policies: National guidelines and their local implementation in northern Sichuan”, Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier & Shen Guozhen, China Perspectives, No. 59, May/June 2005, pp. 2-13.
(French) /
“The poverty-environment hypothesis: Evidence from a rural township in Northern China” (“Pinkun-huanjing jiashuo: Laizi Zhongguo beifang yi ge cunzhen de zhengju”), Sylvie Démurger & Martin Fournier, World Economic Papers (in Chinese), No. 164, February 2005, pp. 11-26.
“An analysis of Natural Reserves management in Beijing”, Ge Zhiwei & Li Junqing, Scientific Technology and Engineering (Kexue jishu yu gongcheng) (in Chinese), 2004, 4(7): 609-617.