Cropland abandonment has emerged as a prevalent phenomenon in the mountainous
areas of China. While there is a general understanding that this new trend is driven by the …

Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable
development. To understand how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in the …

Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the “crisis of governance” facing the
Earth's natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership …

This study investigates the impact of local antigambling interventions (AGIs) on corporate
financialization. From the perspective of formal institutions' influence on culture, our findings …

The growth of rights defence movements in China reflects the increasing capacity of
Chinese citizens to shape their own civic discourse in order to achieve diverse goals. Rights …

Existing research highlights a lack of organizational basis for collective action in
nondemocratic regimes. This study reevaluates this view by examining the distinct roles …

Since initiating the new round of collective forest tenure reform in China, the development of
the forestland transfer market has been of considerable interest to the academic and policy …

China's fiscal arrangement in the 1980s has preserved local governments' incentive but the
1994 fiscal reform recentralized revenues. Since then, farmers' tax burdens have risen …

This paper investigates how three forms of social capital, namely, social norms, social
network and trust, influences the effectiveness of land use policies. Both long-and short-term …

This article, drawing on exploratory data from a recent consultancy project, illuminates
development in the Chinese third sector through the lens of what is currently underway in …