Yanbo Li

• PhD. of Environmental Management
• Researcher at Yunnan University

Mainstream policies encourage pastoralists to apply credit loans and input exogenous fodder to alleviate the stress caused by climatic variability and uncertainty. Such external inputs induce new driving forces to the coupled pastoral social-ecological system (SES), but their long-term impacts are not fully understood. Taking Sonid Left Banner of I...

Debris flows in mountain environments are among the most destructive natural hazards often leading to loss of human lives and economic damage. Understanding the public perception of debris flow hazards and associated adaptation measures generates theoretical and practical basis for disaster risk reduction in mountain environments. Based on househol...

Irrigation systems are critical for food security and drought adaptation in mountainous areas. However, lack of funding and low efficacy of government-funded irrigation projects hinders irrigation infrastructure development. A public–private partnership (PPP) model is recommended for irrigation development, but its application in mountainous areas...

The potential impacts of dam building on resettled communities have been highlighted worldwide. This paper examines the impacts of the newly built Nuozhadu dam on the livelihoods of local communities following the implementation of China's new resettlement policies. Based on household‐level data collected from the resettlement communities using sem...

Invasive alien species pose great threats to ecological and economic health and cause enormous losses to global ecosystems. The Mikania micrantha management program is a source of great theoretical and practical insights for regional agricultural and forestry development. In this paper, the invasion history and distribution patterns of M. micrantha...

Agriculture is an important type of land use but suffers from drought, especially under global climate change scenarios. Although government is a major actor in helping farmers to adapt to drought, lack of funds has constrained its efforts. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism has been widely applied in urban infrastructure development to rai...

Microcredit loans are now common for Inner Mongolian pastoralists and are encouraged by government policy on the basis of their previous success for poverty alleviation. However, the effects of the highly variable weather characteristics of many semiarid rangelands on the efficacy of microcredit have not been fully examined. Pastoralists in our stu...

Soil loss tolerance (T) is a widely used concept for assessing potential risks of soil erosion and is a criterion for assessing the effectiveness of soil and water conservation projects. However, current approaches for calculating T values lack a strong scientific basis, and few practicable methods are available. Many questions remain regarding whi...

In order to prevent rangeland degradation and to recover the ecological services provided by the rangeland ecosystem, China has implemented a series of ecological policies (EPs) since the beginning of the 21st century. Nevertheless, the impacts of these policies are greatly debated in terms of ecosystem, herders’ livelihoods, animal husbandry and p...

In China, three major rangeland management policies have caused dramatic social, economic, and ecological changes for pastoral regions in the past 30 yr: the Rangeland Household Contract Policy (RHCP), Rangeland Ecological Construction Projects (RECPs), and the Nomad Settlement Policy (NSP). The impacts of these policies are greatly debated. In thi...

The Chinese government has adopted Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) as a main approach for preventing or restoring rangelands perceived as undergoing degradation on a massive scale. Using the PES project, known as the 'retire livestock, restore rangeland' project in Alxa of Inner Mongolia as an example, the long-term ecological consequences of...

The complexity of natural resource management is increasingly recognized and requires adaptive governance at multiple levels. It is particularly significant to explore the impacts of government interventions on the management practices of local communities and on target social-ecological systems. The Inner Mongolian rangeland was traditionally mana...