China's Disappearing Countryside

Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

Yongjun Zhao (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27723-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-27723-1 / 1138277231
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27723-6 / 9781138277236
Zustand	Neuware