Foreword.- Preface.- 1. China\'s Ecological Restoration Programs: Initiation, Implementation, and Challenges.- 2. Assessing China\'s Ecological Restoration Programs: What\'s Been Done and What Remains to be Done?- 3. Methodology for an Integrative Assessment of China\'s Ecological Restoration Programs.- 4. Land Cover Changes in Northeast China from the Late 1970s to 2004.- 5. Modeling the Driving Forces of the Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the Upper Yangtze River.- 6. An Integrative Approach to Modeling Land Use Changes: The Multiple Facets of Agriculture in the Upper Yangtze Basin.- 7. Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics in the Upper Yangtze Basin from 1975 to 2000.- 8. Process-based Soil Erosion Simulation on a Regional Scale: The Effect of Ecological Restoration in the Chinese Loess Plateau.- 9. Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints, and Off-farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China.- 10. An Empirical Analysis of Effects of China\'s Land Conversion Program on Farmers\' Income Growth and Labor Transfer.- 11. An Evaluation of the Impact of the Natural Forest Protection Programme on Rural Household Livelihoods.- 12. An Estimation of the Effects of China\'s Forestry Programs on Farmers\' Income.- 13. Agricultural Productivity Changes Induced by the Sloping Land Conversion Program: An Analysis of Wuqi County in the Loess Plateau Region.- 14. Measuring the Aggregate Socioeconomic Impacts of China\'s Natural Forest Protection Program.- Index.