@article{Liu:199259,
      recid = {199259},
      author = {Liu, Jun-Chang and Chen, Wen-Hui},
      title = {Survey and analysis of forest land trade centers in  southern China: A case study of Jiangxi Province},
      journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial  Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics},
      address = {2010-05},
      number = {1332-2016-103769},
      pages = {13},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {The most important measure in addressing the forest  ownership/land use
rights market are the creation of forest  land trade centers (FTC), which are
established to  facilitate the transfer of forest lands in China. The aim  of this
paper is to analyze the implementation, bottleneck,  opportunity, challenge
and developing trend of FTCs, based  on the status quo of the FTCs in
collectively-owned forest  regions in Southern China. This paper uses PRA
approaches  including questionnaires, semi-structured interview to  survey
the status of forest land trade in the FTCs in four  selected counties and the
perceptions of their staff,  beneficiaries, local governments, county forestry
bureaus  and Provincial Forestry Department. The study reveals that  the
establishment and operation of FTCs are subject to a  wide range of policy,
legal, financial and institutional  constraints. The analysis shows that
different stakeholders  have different opinions about their own benefits.  The
staffs of FTCs are concerned about the future of the  FTCs and recommend
to expand the extension of their  services; Beneficiaries considered that the
forest land  trade involves high transaction costs and a complex  procedure.
Finally, this paper summarizes the experience  and lessons about the FTC,
and discusses the Proposals to  Improve the FTCs in future.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199259},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199259},
}