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DOI	10.1016/j.lusepol.2021.105306
	The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China
	Zhang, Yufei; Chen, Jiayin; Han, Yi; Qian, Mengxi; Guo, Xiaona; Chen, Ruishan; Xu, Di; Chen, Yi
通讯作者	Chen, RS (corresponding author), East China Normal Univ, Sch Geog Sci, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China.
来源期刊	LAND USE POLICY
ISSN	0264-8377
EISSN	1873-5754
出版年	2021
卷号	103
英文摘要	Land degradation is a global issue that affects the livelihood of billions of people worldwide. Various responses have emerged to achieve the land degradation neutrality target, including the UN one billion tree campaign and Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Ant Forest, a land restoration approach initiated by China?s largest Fintech company Alibaba, has made substantial progress on land restoration in degraded areas in China, especially in desert areas. It represents a new model of transforming environmental protection intentions and activities of users into actual environmental benefits by planting trees. The lessons and implications of Ant Forest can contribute to ecosystem restoration globally. However, the effects and effectiveness of Ant Forest are not fully understood. Here we use the data from official reports from Alibaba?s ant financial, as well as remote sensing data, to examine how the Ant Forest contributes to land restoration and its socio-economic effects. We found that Ant Forest has many potential roles for achieving sustainable development goals, ranging from land restoration, carbon emission reduction, poverty reduction, human health improvement and many more. While its innovation has brought its international reputation at home and abroad, whether the project itself can sustain is still a question that needs to be concerned. The Fintech facilitated restoration has the potential to be scaled up, but it still needs to continue updating its platform, keep the intentions of the existed users and encouraging more new users to join in the effort.
英文关键词	Ant Forest Internet plus Fintech Land restoration China
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000626470900007
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351090
作者单位	[Zhang, Yufei; Chen, Jiayin; Han, Yi; Qian, Mengxi; Guo, Xiaona; Chen, Ruishan] Minist Educ, Key Lab Geog Informat Sci, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China; [Zhang, Yufei; Chen, Jiayin; Han, Yi; Qian, Mengxi; Guo, Xiaona; Chen, Ruishan] East China Normal Univ, Sch Geog Sci, Inst Ecochongming, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China; [Xu, Di] Shanghai Normal Univ, Sch Environm & Geog Sci, Shanghai 200233, Peoples R China; [Chen, Yi] Nanjing Tech Univ, Dept Architecture, Nanjing 211816, Peoples R China; [Zhang, Yufei] East China Normal Univ, Sch Geog Sci, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yufei,Chen, Jiayin,Han, Yi,et al. The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China[J],2021,103.
APA	Zhang, Yufei.,Chen, Jiayin.,Han, Yi.,Qian, Mengxi.,Guo, Xiaona.,...&Chen, Yi.(2021).The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China.LAND USE POLICY,103.
MLA	Zhang, Yufei,et al."The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China".LAND USE POLICY 103(2021).