With the rapid development of urbanization, arable land abandonment is accelerating in China's mountainous areas. Alleviating the problem of land abandonment has emerged as an important issue of arable land use in China. To alleviate the abandonment of arable land, one of the key counter...

The Himalayas are of great strategic importance for China and India but the remote region remains relatively underdeveloped. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of China's Tibet and India's Ladakh with the aim of identifying common and idiosyncratic factors relevant for local economic...