Abstract: Abstract Using traditional methods, this paper gave assessment to the extent of sandy desertification and the changes of land use in eight counties in Horqin Sandy Land over the period 1980–2010. A coupling model was established on the base of general Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model to better understand the roles of economic growth and other factors to sandy desertification in an integrated framework. To avoid the bias owing to the data discordance and the autocorrelation in time series data, Unit Root Test was applied and an ARDL mod...
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Topics: 
Agricultural economics
Water resource management
Physical geography