Econometric Analysis on Development, Utilization and Conservation of Regional Common Resources and Building of Environment Friendly Rural Systems

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In common grassland areas of northwest China, conservation set-aside policy or ecological resettlement has been adopted as the policy against the environmental degradation by desertification and yellow sandstorm which have been caused due to overgrazing by the increased nomads. It is clarified that the former policy worsened the husbandry management although environmental conservation was improved to some extent and as for the latter policy, the technical efficiency of ecologically resettledfarmers is lower than the traditional farmers. In addition, it was shown that promotion of resource recycling and biofuel production instead of nonrenewable fuels is effective for conservation of common resources.