TY - JOUR
T1 - China's response to a national land-system sustainability emergency /704/844/685 /704/172/4081 perspective
AU - Bryan, Brett A.
AU - Gao, Lei
AU - Ye, Yanqiong
AU - Sun, Xiufeng
AU - Connor, Jeffery D.
AU - Crossman, Neville D.
AU - Stafford-Smith, Mark
AU - Wu, Jianguo
AU - He, Chunyang
AU - Yu, Deyong
AU - Liu, Zhifeng
AU - Li, Ang
AU - Huang, Qingxu
AU - Ren, Hai
AU - Deng, Xiangzheng
AU - Zheng, Hua
AU - Niu, Jianming
AU - Han, Guodong
AU - Hou, Xiangyang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/7/12
Y1 - 2018/7/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41586-018-0280-2
DO - 10.1038/s41586-018-0280-2
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29995865
AN - SCOPUS:85049811387
SN - 0028-0836
VL - 559
SP - 193
EP - 204
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
IS - 7713
ER -