Ph.D. Management, College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F
University (China)
Joint Ph.D. Management, Department of Economics and Management, University of
Helsinki (Finland)
M.A., Management, College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F
University (China)
B.A. Management, College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F
University (China)

Selected Publications
1. Yang, Liu; Rezitis, Anthony; Ren, Yang. How significant are the roles moral
obligation and formal institutions play in participatory irrigation management?
Agriculture, 2022, 12:1847.
2. Yang Liu; Ren Yang. Property rights, village democracy, and household forestry
income: evidence from China’s collective forest tenure reform. Journal of Forest
Research, 2021, 26(1): 7-16.
3. Yang Liu; Ren Yang; Tang Zhiwei; Zhu Yuchun. Impact of institutional constraints on
participatory irrigation management: The regulating role of moral obligation.
Irrigation and Drainage, 2021, 70(5):1287-1297.
4. Yang Liu; Ren Yang; Tang Zhiwei. Generalized morality, public leadership and
collective governance of small-scale irrigation and water conservancy facilities.
Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University (Social Science Edition), 2021(1):138-
147. (In Chinese)
5. Yang Liu; Ren Yang. Has China’s new round of collective forestland tenure reform
caused an increase in rural labor transfer? Land, 2020,9:284.
6. Yang Liu; Ren Yang. Moral obligation, public leadership, and collective action for
epidemic prevention and control: Evidence from the Corona Virus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) emergency. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health, 2020,17:2731.
7. Yang Liu; Ren Yang; Tang Zhiwei; Zhu Yuchun. The influence of institutional rules
on collective governance performance of small-scale irrigation facilities. Soft Science,
2020,34(8):51-56. (In Chinese)
8. Yang Liu; Zhu Yuchun. Social trust, organizational support and households’
governance performance: A case study of irrigation systems. Social Sciences
Academic Press: Beijing, China, 2019. (In Chinese)
9. Ren Yang, Kuuluvainen Jari, Yao Shunbo, Xue Caixia, Yang Liu. Effect of land rights
structure and village democracy on farmers’ forestry inputs. Journal of Northwest
A&F University (Social Science Edition), 2019, 19(1):128-136. (In Chinese)
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10. Yang Liu, Rezitis Anthony, Zhu Yuchun, Ren Yang. Investigating the effects of
social trust and perceived organizational support on irrigation management
performance in rural China. Water, 2018,10(9): 1252.
11. Ren Yang, Kuuluvainen Jari, Toppinen Anne, Yao Shunbo, Berghäll Sami,
Karppinen Heimo, Xue Caixia, Yang Liu. The effect of China’s New Circular
Collective Forest Tenure Reform on household non-timber forest product production
in Natural Forest Protection Project regions. Sustainability, 2018, 10(4): 1091.
12. Ren Yang, Kuuluvainen Jari, Yang Liu, Yao Shunbo, Xue Caixia, Toppinen Anne.
Village democracy and investment incentives of the Collective Forest Tenure Reform
in China. Forests, 2018, 9(9): 541.
13. Yang Liu, Zhu Yuchun, Ren Yang. Influence of social trust and organizational
support on the performance of farmers’ participation in the management and
maintenance of small-scale farmland water conservancy. Resources Science, 2018,
40(6):1230-1245. (In Chinese)
14. Yang Liu, Zhu Yuchun, Ren Yang. Influence of social capital and organizational
support on performance of farmers’ participation in the management and maintenance
of small-scale farmland water conservancy. China Population, Resources and
Environment, 2018, 28(1):148-156. (In Chinese)
15. Yang Liu, Zhu Yuchun, Ren Yang. Analysis of farmers’ willingness to participate in
the management and maintenance of small-scale farmland water conservancy from
perspective of income inequality: An empirical study based on TPB and multiplegroup SEM. Rural Economy, 2018, (1):97-104. (In Chinese)
16. Yang Liu, Zhu Yuchun. Effects of social trust and cooperative ability on farmers’
participation behavior in supply of small-scale farmland water conservancy: Based on
the data of five provinces in Yellow River irrigation district. China Population,
Resources and Environment, 2016, 26(3):163-170. (In Chinese)