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The authors would like to thank the Ford Foundation, World Resources Institute and PARDYP (People and Resource Dynamics in Mountain Watershed of the Hindu-Kush Himalayas Project) for funding the field research and writing for this essay. The authors would also like to thank Zheng Lixia, Laetia Kress and Diana Conyers for editing this essay, and owe special thanks to two anonymous reviewers and Anne Larson, whose comments contributed greatly to the development of the essay. Jesse Ribot would like to acknowledge Jianchu Xu for inviting him onboard as co-author: as the former is an Africa specialist with no experience in China, the credit must go to Jianchu Xu for the insights and knowledge about China presented herein.
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Xu, J., Ribot, J. Decentralisation and Accountability in Forest Management: A Case from Yunnan, Southwest China. Eur J Dev Res 16, 153–173 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1080/09578810410001688789
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