Gains and losses: Does farmland acquisition harm farmers’ welfare?

Influencing Factors Analysis on Land-Lost Farmers’ Happiness Based on the Rough DEMATEL Method

“…ere are also some studies on the happiness of rural residents in China [57], but it is difficult to see the research on the happiness of land-lost farmers in the process of urbanization [14].…”

“…Wang et al showed that the great deprivation of farmland and compensation inequality reduce the happiness of land-lost farmers. On the whole, the research on the happiness of land-lost farmers has not attracted much attention of scholars, and the existing research lacks systematic analysis on the factors affecting the happiness of land-lost farmers, and does not take into account the relationship between various factors [14].…”

“…First, we analyze the influencing factors of land-lost farmers' happiness, although land acquisition and related issues have become a hot issue of concern by the government and scholars [10][11][12][13]. However, most of the existing research in this area focused on the economic and legal aspects of these policies and paid little attention to the happiness of land-lost farmers [14]. Based on the investigation of the land acquisition system, employment and social security, and cultural and psychological impact, this paper constructs an evaluation system of the influencing factors of land-lost farmers' happiness.…”

“…Second, the rough DEMATEL method is used to evaluate the influencing factors of land-lost farmers' happiness [15]. Although there have been a few attempts to study the happiness of land-lost farmers [14,16,17], however, these studies generally assumed that the factors that affect the happiness of land-lost farmers are independent of each other and did not analyze the relationship between the factors.…”

Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China

“…In fact, the influence of urban redevelopment is dominated by the social system, leading roles of government or market, natural conditions, and regulations of the city itself [7][8][9][10]. Social systems such as value systems, decision-making tendencies, and uncertainty have significant impacts on urban renewal [11].…”