China has experienced extraordinary institutional and socio-economic changes after 1978, and its deepening reform to market-oriented economy since 1990s was also recognized as one the most significant factors to drive China's rise in the contemporary world. Although many aspects of China's...

The aim of this paper is to develop an empirical model of land use change that integrates the growth of regional economy and land use change in a developing country such as China. The concept of ecological growth in terms of regional resources and population is introduced to make an empirical...

Since Agenda 21 was passed at 1992 Earth Summit, integrated coastal and marine management has become a big challenge for central and local government. China is also making efforts to carry out integrated coastal and marine management by improving administrative management system and enacting...