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China's Disappearing Countryside

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China's Disappearing Countryside book

Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

China's Disappearing Countryside

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China's Disappearing Countryside book

Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor
ByYongjun Zhao
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571690
Pages 174 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315571690
SubjectsArea Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Politics & International Relations
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Zhao, Y. (2013). China's Disappearing Countryside. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571690

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction: The Mystic Role of Land Tenure Reform in Sustainable Rural Development

chapter 2|14 pages

International Context of Land Tenure Reform: Theoretical Reconstruction

chapter 3|24 pages

A Brief Account of 600 Years of China’s Land Struggles before the Market Reform Era

chapter 4|23 pages

China’s Land Tenure Reform since the 1970s: Crossing the River by Touching the Stones?

chapter 5|25 pages

The Withering Household Responsibility System and Sustainable Natural Resource Management in North China

chapter 6|22 pages

Land Transfers for Scaled Development: An Economic Fix or Marginalization of the Poor?

chapter 7|24 pages

Innovative Pro-poor Collective Land Tenure: Case Study of a Village Commune in Southern China

chapter 8|12 pages

Conditions and Dynamics of Pro-poor Land Tenure

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