Towards decentralization and privatization of China's collective forestlands: A study of nine villages in 3 provinces
China started forestland tenure reform in the early 1980s. The reforms have been evolving and vary significantly from region to region. Unlike in agriculture, it is too simplistic to use a household responsibility system (HRS) to generalize about the reforms in forestry. Despite variations
in time and place, a trend towards privatization started to become apparent when the central government began a pilot experiment called the new stage of forestland tenure reform in the early 2000s and went on to implement the reform nationwide. This paper compares various paths towards decentralization
and privatization and the adoption of market mechanisms in collective forestry, but pays special attention to the new reforms by examining and comparing 9 villages in 3 provinces in southeast China where collective forest ownership is dominant. The impact of the new reform along with, public
attitudes, and current challenges are investigated and discussed.
Keywords: community forestry; economic reform; forestland market; land tenure; privatization
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Forestry University, Zhejiang, China. 2: School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, AL 36849. 3: Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
Publication date: 01 December 2009
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