A Review of Forestland Use and Management in China

Abstract

In the past few decades, forestland management have changed in response to the improved patterns of resource use in rural China. Two main questions arise: what factors are to have an impacts on forestland use, and how does forestland management adapt to forestland use changes. Most researches mainly focus on forestland transfer for the forestland use, since forestland transfer has been the effective way of achieving intensive management. The forest tenure reform breeds new management modes and management methods for forestland change as the most basic driving force. However, there are some aspects need to be improved and further discussion is required, including constructing forestry credit system, perfecting mortgage system, and improving assets evaluation system and service mechanism. This paper summarizes the existing studies on forestland use and management from the reform of forestry system, forestland use change and forestland management.