Shi Xiangying, one of the many excellent doctoral students at EfD China who obtained their Ph. D.s this summer, is dedicated to the research of ecosystem equilibrium and the conservation of snow
EfD China has conducted a field study involving over 1,500 households and hundreds of stakeholders to evaluate the effects of the Collective Forest Tenure Reform. The purpose is to provide China’s
In March 2021, the United Nations Statistical Commission took a major step toward moving beyond traditional measures of economic well-being by officially approving a framework for ecosystem accounting
A love of Chinese and English literature initially drew Dr. YuanYuan Yi to the halls of academia. But while in her first job at the Chinese Center for Agriculture and Policy and later at the China
There is a danger that the recovery after the pandemic and the desire for continued rapid growth will jeopardize previous steps towards a green economy in China. Jintao Xu is a Center Director at EfD
The Chinese government is lowering its subsidies for renewable energy, after researchers found that they were too high relative to the rapidly dropping global price of wind and solar technologies. The
High state subsidies have helped speed the growth of the renewable energy sector in China, but they now threaten the sustainability of the government’s funding policy for this sector. This is
A plan to reduce automobile traffic in Beijing was in the hands of the city’s mayor in late 2013. EfD China played a major role in figuring out what strategies would – and would not – be likely to
“Key messages resulting from the multi-year study include redistributing management responsibility between central and local governments, and allowing localized decision on reforming state forest
Beijing is the world´s most congested city as measured by average vehicle speed. It is also one of the most air polluted cities, with a substantial part of the emissions coming from vehicles. To find