In 2014 research by the Water (WAT) Program was carried out under the NSFC-IIASA Project on Land Use Change in Mountainous Areas in China in 2014: A Chongqing case study. These activities led to considerable progresses in the modeling and analysis work on the econometric modeling assessment of the contribution of intra-village land circulation market to the reduction of farmland abandonment rates. The following are among the highlights of research undertaken in this project (see also [1] [2] [3]):
References
[1] Fan D, Ding Q, Tian Z, Sun L, Fischer G (2014). Simulating the adaptive measures of soybean production to climate change in China: based on cross-scale model coupling. Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) – 5th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (RACR-2015). [Günther Fischer and Laixiang Sun supported Qiuying Ding in this research project as part of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2014.]
[2] Qiu H, Sun L, Xu X, Cai Y, Bai J (2014). Potentials of crop residues for commercial energy production in China: A geographic and economic analysis. Biomass and Bioenergy, 64:110-123 (May 2014) (Published online 21 April 2014).
[3] Feng K, Hubacek K, Sun L, Liu Z (2014). Consumption-based CO2 accounting of China's megacities: The case of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing. Ecological Indicators, 47:26-31 (December 2014) (Published online 26 May 2014).
Collaborators
National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Institute of Geographical Sciences & Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Southwest University of China
Chongqing Normal University, China
Research program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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