After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world …. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of … different scales, which have attracted considerable attention both in China and abroad. The projects indicate, first, that there …

countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book …'s largest conservation organization (World Wildlife Fund) on the debate over trade liberalization and its effects on poverty and … perspective that pays attention to environmental and social vulnerability and understands the linkages between poverty reduction …