Effects of management regimes on carbon sequestration under the Natural Forest Protection Program in northeast China

This is a brief review on the progress and impacts of China’s Natural Forest Protection Program that was initiated in response to massive flooding in 1998 of the major river basins of China. The program was heavily financed by the central government and was a success in terms of three program goals: timber harvest control in the natural forests; increase in the total area of forest protection; and, the successful resettlement of forest workers who were affected by reduced harvests. The ecological, social, and economic impacts of the program are discussed.

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Has China’s Natural Forest Protection Program Protected Forests?—Heilongjiang’s Experience

Forests ◽

10.3390/f7100218 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (12) ◽

pp. 218 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Miaoying Shi ◽

Jiaguo Qi ◽

Runsheng Yin

Keyword(s):

Natural Forest ◽

Forest Protection ◽

Protected Forests ◽

Natural Forest Protection Program ◽

Natural Forest Protection

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Biomass carbon storage and its sequestration potential of afforestation under natural forest protection program in China

Chinese Geographical Science ◽

10.1007/s11769-014-0702-5 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 406-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Wangming Zhou ◽

Bernard Joseph Lewis ◽

Shengnan Wu ◽

Dapao Yu ◽

Li Zhou ◽

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Keyword(s):

Carbon Storage ◽

Natural Forest ◽

Biomass Carbon ◽

Forest Protection ◽

Sequestration Potential ◽

Natural Forest Protection Program ◽

Natural Forest Protection

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Forest management of Korean pine and broadleaf mixed forest in Northeast China since the implementation of Natural Forest Protection Project

Acta Ecologica Sinica ◽

10.5846/stxb201405201029 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

Author(s):

于大炮 YU Dapao ◽

周旺明 ZHOU Wangming ◽

包也 BAO Ye ◽

齐麟 QI Lin ◽

周莉 ZHOU Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Northeast China ◽

Mixed Forest ◽

Natural Forest ◽

Korean Pine ◽

Forest Protection ◽

Natural Forest Protection

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Measuring the socioeconomic impacts of China's Natural Forest Protection Program

Environment and Development Economics ◽

10.1017/s1355770x06003263 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 769-788 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

YUEQIN SHEN ◽

XIANCHUN LIAO ◽

RUNSHENG YIN

Keyword(s):

Biodiversity Loss ◽

Natural Forest ◽

Water Runoff ◽

Input Output ◽

Forest Protection ◽

Socioeconomic Impacts ◽

Natural Forest Protection Program ◽

Natural Forest Protection ◽

National Governments ◽

Forest Managers

China has been implementing one of the world's largest ecological rehabilitation projects, the Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP), to improve its fragile and precarious environmental conditions. This paper measures the socioeconomic impacts of the NFPP using input–output (I–O) models. We find that the NFPP will expand the annual output of the forest sectors by 5.8 billion Yuan and the whole economy by 8.9 billion Yuan by 2010. Employment will increase by 0.84 million in the forest sectors and by 0.93 million in the whole economy. Associated with the enormous expansion of forest protection and management are huge contributions to mitigating water runoff, soil erosion, flooding, and biodiversity loss. The investments and adjustments are thus worthwhile, if the program is properly implemented. The challenges are to transform loggers into tree planters and forest managers and to ensure that the financial and institutional commitments by the local and national governments will be materialized.

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