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New organizational strategy for managing the forests of southeast China - The share-holding integrated forestry tenure (SHIFT) system
Gordon T. Geballe and 3 other contributors
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Song, Y. ., Burch, W. ., Geballe, G. ., & Geng, L. . (1997). New organizational strategy for managing the forests of southeast China - The share-holding integrated forestry tenure (SHIFT) system. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 91(2-3), 183-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03891-1 (Original work published 2024)
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Abstract
This study examines the factors influencing the adoption of a unique organizational innovation for local forest management in China. The share-holding integrated forestry tenure (or the SHIFT) system in Sanming prefecture of Fujian province, People's Republic of China, is based on a system of benefit sharing and tenureship that provides both management responsibility and economic incentive to local villagers. The adoption of SHIFT has improved sustainability, productivity, equity, and flexibility in the face of changes caused by biophysical and human intervention, and encouraged a more democratic rural life and more power of independent decision-making. It has also given a greater role to professional foresters and led to a more diversified set of management goals. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.