Political dynamics in land commodification: Commodifying rural land development rights in Chengdu, China
Qian Forrest Zhang,Jianling Wu +1 more
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In this paper, a market-based program of land development rights trading in Chengdu, China is examined, where local governments at multiple levels work together to construct land development right as a commodity and build market institutions to foster its trading, illustrating land commodification as an inherently political process.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 67 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Land law & Land development.read more
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Spatial distribution characteristics and optimized reconstruction analysis of China’s rural settlements during the process of rapid urbanization
Ren Yang,Qian Xu,Hualou Long +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the distribution characteristics of rural settlements and their impact has profound implications for rural reconstruction, such as clustered, random, and uniform discrete distribution, and found that rural settlements were denser in the southeastern regions compared to the northwestern regions.
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Wasting the rural: Meat, manure, and the politics of agro-industrialization in contemporary China
TL;DR: In this paper, the industrialization of pig farming in the reform era is used as a trace on broader processes of social and environmental change, and a dialectical approach highlights the contradictions inherent in ongoing attempts to disembed capitalist production from biological and social relations.
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A comparison of the means and ends of rural construction land consolidation: Case studies of villagers' attitudes and behaviours in Changchun City, Jilin province, China
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the means and ends of its practices and villagers' attitudes and behaviours in response to them based on a comparison of a failed case and a successful case in Changchun City, which is located in the northeast of China, and showed that the geographical location and associated socio-economic background of villages endow them with different potentials, strengths, and weaknesses in implementing HEA.
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Coupling analysis of greenhouse-led farmland transition and rural transformation development in China's traditional farming area: a case of Qingzhou City.
Dazhuan Ge,Dazhuan Ge,Zhihua Wang,Shuangshuang Tu,Hualou Long,Huili Yan,Dongqi Sun,Weifeng Qiao,Weifeng Qiao +8 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper constructed a coupled conceptual model between farmland transition and rural transformation development in China's traditional farming area and showed that the coupling relationship between farmland use morphology and rural development status presents types at different stages.
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