| Literature DB >> 29995865 |
Brett A Bryan1,2, Lei Gao3, Yanqiong Ye3,4, Xiufeng Sun3,5, Jeffery D Connor3,6, Neville D Crossman3,7, Mark Stafford-Smith8, Jianguo Wu9,10, Chunyang He9, Deyong Yu9, Zhifeng Liu9, Ang Li11, Qingxu Huang9, Hai Ren12, Xiangzheng Deng13, Hua Zheng14, Jianming Niu15, Guodong Han16, Xiangyang Hou17.
Abstract
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, mostly since 1998. We find overwhelmingly that the interventions improved the sustainability of China's rural land systems, but the impacts are nuanced and adverse outcomes have occurred. We identify some key characteristics of programme success, potential risks to their durability, and future research needs. We suggest directions for China and other nations as they progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations' Agenda 2030.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29995865 DOI： 10.1038/s41586-018-0280-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN： 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962