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Making Sustainability Policies Sustainable

November 30, 2012

Sweeping environmental policies come with hidden challenges--not only striving to achieve sustainability and benefit the environment--but over time ensuring the program itself can endure. Scientists at Michigan State University and their colleagues in China are examining China's massive Grain to Green Program--an effort to persuade farmers to return cropland to forest through financial incentives. Their results were reported in this week's journal Ecological Indicators. Full Story

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