2017
DOI: 10.1177/0263774x16682958
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Growing centralization in China’s farmland protection policy in response to policy failure and related upward-extending unwillingness to protect farmland since 1978

Abstract: Since 1978, China has experienced a rapid loss of arable land, leading to centralizing of farmland protection policies. To understand the growing centralization, this paper has used the lens of the interactions among (1) unwillingness to protect farmland among diverse actors, (2) policy failure and (3) policy change. The growing centralization is an adaptive response to the unwillingness to protect farmland from local up to provincial government levels, and its associated policy failure. The article suggests t… Show more

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“…The state holds substantial control over urban land supply for real estate development, making land supply a critical tool of the state in shaping real estate investment and urban development [8]. Given its multiple roles in the land market, the state can shape urban land supply through a variety of means such as land use policies and regulations (e.g., references [7,[29][30][31][32]), direct investment in land development (e.g., references [33][34][35]), urban and regional planning (e.g., references [36][37][38][39]), and land leasing (e.g., references [22,40]). The impact of the central state's intervention in land supply on municipal levels in China warrants a proper comprehension of the central-local relations in land supply.…”
Section: State Intervention In Land Supply and Its Impact On Real Estmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The state holds substantial control over urban land supply for real estate development, making land supply a critical tool of the state in shaping real estate investment and urban development [8]. Given its multiple roles in the land market, the state can shape urban land supply through a variety of means such as land use policies and regulations (e.g., references [7,[29][30][31][32]), direct investment in land development (e.g., references [33][34][35]), urban and regional planning (e.g., references [36][37][38][39]), and land leasing (e.g., references [22,40]). The impact of the central state's intervention in land supply on municipal levels in China warrants a proper comprehension of the central-local relations in land supply.…”
Section: State Intervention In Land Supply and Its Impact On Real Estmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The entrepreneurial nature of the local state [39] has meant that it is not a disinterested regulatory third party with regards to land and economic development. Although the central state has gradually strengthened its regulatory power in land supply since the late 1990s [31,46], its rules and regulations (e.g., land use quotas) have often been circumvented or violated by the local state in order to pursue growth [32].…”
Section: State Intervention In Land Supply and Its Impact On Real Estmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With the aim of identifying implications and recommendations in land-use policies, some policy suggestions are put forward by integrating our findings and the development targets of the BTH. On the one hand, greater efforts to control urban sprawl by strictly limiting the transformation of cultivated land to land for construction purposes is needed [61]. We propose that careful selection of new urban land siting may limit the loss of ESs based on a reliable land program.…”
Section: Implications For Socio-ecological Development Land-use Policmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although laws related to environmental protection have been enacted, the conversion of farmland into industrial zones has not abated. Although institutions have attempted to preserve cultivated land [1], recent manifestation of environmental problems indicates that development policies require reform. The education of citizens regarding environmental protection is crucial for the development of sustainability-related social consciousness.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%