Poverty Alleviation Via Forest Carbon Sequestration: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Policy Implications

Based on the basic principle of theory–practice–theory, this book adopts the methodology of theoretical research –empirical analysis–discussion–policy suggestions and macroscopic analysis–case study–microscopic survey. Using relevant research findings within and outside China, the researchers analyse the effect of FCS project exploitation on regional and individual poverty alleviation. The PAFCS stakeholders and their basic appeals for benefits are clarified, and the constituents of the PAFCS system are identified. The dynamic mechanism that combines FCS project exploitation and poverty alleviation is uncovered, and a theoretical frame-work of PAFCS is established. Based on the analyses of the current situations and challenges of PAFCS in the ethnic regions of southwest China, this book sampled FCS projects implemented in these regions where afforestation or reforestation has been partially completed. Theories of economics, management science, ethnology, ecology, and sociology have been drawn on, and multiple econometric methods, including the logistic model, ordered probit model, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and structural equation modelling (SEM), have been employed.