China's Disappearing Countryside

Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-27723-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

While China’s hybrid rural land tenure system has contributed to agricultural development, it is interwoven with rising farmland loss and social conflicts.This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China’s development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative land tenure systems that address the wider determinants: institutions, power, politics and social development. It argues that a land tenure system can only be sustainable when it is compatible with the overall biophysical, social, political and economic conditions. This new institutional lens into the conditions and dynamics of land tenure systems marks a paradigm shift away from those focusing on the narrow meaning of land rights and tenure security strengthening, as these approaches can paradoxically contribute to weaker land and resource governance. Contributing to an enhanced understanding of the challenges China faces in agricultural development and natural resource governance and to the international debates on land tenure reform, this book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students in development studies, anthropology, sociology, political sciences, law, geography, economics, public administration and other relevant disciplines. The lessons learnt from China also shed light on its global engagement on sustainable development and governance issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhao, Yongjun

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 International Context of Land Tenure Reform; Chapter 3 A Brief Account of 600 Years of China’s Land Struggles before the Market Reform Era; Chapter 4 China’s Land Tenure Reform since the 1970s; Chapter 5 The Withering Household Responsibility System and Sustainable Natural Resource Management in North China; Chapter 6 Land Transfers for Scaled Development; Chapter 7 Innovative Pro-poor Collective Land Tenure; Chapter 8 Conditions and Dynamics of Pro-poor Land Tenure;

Über Autor(innen)

Yongjun Zhao is Assistant Professor of Globalization Studies and Humanitarian Action, Globalization Studies Groningen, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.