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Based on field survey and interview data from seven counties in northwest China, this chapter studies the significance of scholars’ participation in combating desertification, its relationship with the degree of land amelioration, and the key factors and mechanisms that were most crucial to the effectiveness of scholars’ participation. This chapter indicates that scholars played an important role in combating desertification in general, although a higher level of scholar participation did not always correspond to a higher level of land amelioration. Thirteen related, but different, factors were responsible for the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of scholars’ participation in combating desertification. The first seven are related to the characteristics of scholars’ behaviors, while the others are germane to the attributes of scholars’ organizations and external support in combating desertification. Furthermore, these factors were positively correlated with the success rate of land amelioration efforts.
Boldly hypothesize and carefully validate (In Chinese: “大胆假设, 小心求证。”).
—Hu (1928)
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Scholars’ utility function was considered when I studied the rule of the combination between economic development and environmental protection.
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Yang, L. (2019). Significance and Mechanisms of Scholars’ Participation. In: Knowledge-Driven Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2910-4_4
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