This podcasts elaborates on some supplementary materials in the forestry publication by Zhang et al. (2022).

Based on this research it briefly presents details of ten Forestation Programs in China and their contexts and objectives. Those are large-scale and long-term landscape projects with various aims and goals, increasing the forest area in China, and sometimes beyond. Grasslands and steeply sloped mountain areas play a specific role. Those programs improve poverty and rural development but are often not so well known abroad, and thus they are presented and discussed here as first pointers and for consideration and debate with the wider global audience. The increase of forest area and carbon sequestration, as well as avoidance of erosion through designed shelterbelts, often stand as main goals. 

See also the references by Chen et al. (2018), Elvin (2006) and Harris (2006) for wider context.

References

Zhang, L., P. Sun, F. Huettmann, and S. Liu (2022). Where should China practice forestry in a warming world? Global Change Biology, 00, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16065 

Chen J, R. John, G. Sun3, P. Fan, G. M. Henebry, M. E. Fernández-Giménez, Y.Zhang, H. Park, L. Tian, P. Groisman, Z.Ouyang, G. Allington, J. Wu, C. Shao,A..Amarjargal, G.Dong, G. Gutman, F.Huettmann, R.Lafortezza, C. and J.Qu (2018) Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian plateau: five critical issues Environmental Research Letters 13: 123004. DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf27b

Elvin M. (2006) The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Yale University Press 

Harris R. (2006) Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West, East Gate Books.

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