Failure by design – National mandates and agent control of local land use in China

Li, Wanxi

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.12.010

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“…Han and Lai (2012) pointed to the shifting role of the central government, with the once exclusive role of urban economic development replaced by multiple goals that are hard to achieve [37]. Li (2016) pointed to regulatory failure in the central government's failure to control local land use [38]. Dean and Daam-Luhr (2010) likewise pointed to reforms not going far enough to protect rural dwellers' rights [39].…”

Section: Brief Literature Review Of Land Use In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban–Rural Construction Land Replacement for More Sustainable Land Use and Regional Development in China: Policies and Practices

Wang

et al. 2019

Land

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With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, land exploitation in China has caused a decrease of cultivated land, posing a threat to national food security. To achieve the goals of both economic development and cultivated land protection, China launched an urban–rural land replacement measure supported by a new land use policy of “increasing vs. decreasing balance” of construction land between urban and rural areas in 2008. Setting China’s urban and rural land use policies in a historical context and urban–rural sustainable development, this paper discusses four practices in Jiangsu Province, Tianjin Municipality, Shandong Province, and Chongqing Municipality. These practices achieved success in impelling agricultural modernization development, improving rural infrastructure and living circumstances, releasing the potential of rural land resources, and increasing cultivated land and urban construction land in the past decade. However, in some practices, problems, and even some conflicts, exist in the protection of farmers’ rights and interests. These challenges are discussed in the context of implementation. In order to better implement urban–rural construction land replacement and achieve better results, the authors argue that farmers’ rights and interests must always be put first and their wishes should be respected more, a consolidated urban–rural land market and a better land market mechanism should be founded, the supply of public goods and services for villagers should be further improved, and supervision and evaluation mechanisms should be further strengthened.

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Section: Brief Literature Review Of Land Use In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban–Rural Construction Land Replacement for More Sustainable Land Use and Regional Development in China: Policies and Practices

Wang

et al. 2019

Land

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“…Land-use planners are facing the challenge of striking a balance between food production, economic growth, and natural resource protection [ 39 ]. Given these contradictory goals, China’s current land use policies and plans are ineffective in responding to rapid urbanization, in protecting cultivated land and natural resources, and in protecting the environment [ 64 , 65 , 66 ].…”

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How Human Activity Has Changed the Regional Habitat Quality in an Eco-Economic Zone: Evidence from Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone, China

Zhang

Xie

et al. 2020

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Human activities such as deforestation and urbanization have affected the regional habitat quality of the Poyang Lake area. To evaluate the evolution of habitat quality and its influencing factors in the area, we used Classification and Regression Trees (CART) to interpret the land-use status and used the InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) model to analyze the characteristics of changes in habitat quality in the Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone (PLEEZ) from 1988 to 2018. The results show that, from 1988 to 2018, land use in the PLEEZ underwent significant changes. The changes in land use led to a gradual increase in habitat degradation and a gradual decrease in habitat quality in the study area. Rapid urbanization notably decreased the habitat quality in the study area. However, at the same time, the ecological protection projects such as returning farmland to forests slowed the decline in habitat quality. Driven by these two factors, habitat quality in the PLEEZ gradually declined but the rate of its decline was suppressed. The findings of this study are of great significance for the coordinated development of social, economic, and ecological development in the PLEEZ and similar areas.

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“…In China, towns and villages have captured only 20%-30% profits of land value increment, and farmers obtain 5%-10% of the profits. The local governments take 20%-30% profits and the left, which is 40%-50%, was all grabbed by developers [10] .…”

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Mass Incidents Push Government to Curb Environmental Pollution in China’s Urbanization

Lin

Chang

Fei

2014

AMR

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Cities in China have developed rapidly since economic reform. Meanwhile, mass incidents have happened more frequently. The annual growth rate of mass incidents has exceeded that rate of urban population growth and mass incidents have become a serious threaten to further urbanization in China. We first analyse the reason of rapid growth number of mass incidents, then point out that job supplement will trigger severer mass incidents and the development mode of sacrificing environment for economic growth will incur more mass incidents, both of which will be obstacles for China’s urbanization. Therefore we suggest that Chinese government should implement institution reform to overcome these obstacles.

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Failure by design – National mandates and agent control of local land use in China

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Urban–Rural Construction Land Replacement for More Sustainable Land Use and Regional Development in China: Policies and Practices

Urban–Rural Construction Land Replacement for More Sustainable Land Use and Regional Development in China: Policies and Practices

How Human Activity Has Changed the Regional Habitat Quality in an Eco-Economic Zone: Evidence from Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone, China

Mass Incidents Push Government to Curb Environmental Pollution in China’s Urbanization

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