Purpose: This paper analysed survey data of 715 rice-producing households in China to assess the determinants of adoption of five mutually exclusive soil conservation practices (SCPs) and their impact on rice yield and chemical fertiliser use. Design/methodology/approach: The multinomial...

The substitutability between traditional fuels and modern fuels is essential for examine the possibility of energy transition. The existing literature on China's interfuel substitution is mainly based on the translog function form and often the global curvature is not imposed. There is also a...