Despite becoming one of China’s fastest expanding and most valuable forest land uses, bamboo’s role in livelihoods and rural development is poorly understood. Detailed quantitative data from 240 households were used to study the contribution of bamboo to household income and rural livelihoods in 12 remote and mountainous villages in southern China. Bamboo was a ubiquitous and highly utilised re...

one of the natural hazards in mountainous areas, which always cause great losses of life and financial damages, is the avalanche fall. since, survey the avalanche-prone areas for prevention the probable damages is considerably important, especially when the avalanche paths affect the residential areas or roads. in this research, based on local information, one of the avalanche paths in the chah...

When used for agricultural production, karst mountainous areas are susceptible to soil degradation due the effects of soluble rocks and climate. To mitigate risk, Grain Green Project, a sizable initiative, was commenced transition cultivated land away from use. This conversion non-agricultural has been significant. The study area considered in this research included four small towns southwest C...

Currently, in the context of rural revitalization China, a large number villages are starting to develop tourism. However, different models tourism development poor mountainous areas have completely and inequitable impacts on local communities enterprises. In this paper, by comparing two townships Wulong District, Chongqing—Fairy mountain Town Zhao’s Town, we find that government-controlled mod...