Land consolidation for rural sustainability in China: Practical reflections and policy implications

Li, Yuheng; Wu, Wenhao; Liu, Yansui

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.003

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“…First, the government should dynamically adjust their distribution plan for construction land quotas with a trend of population migrations among provinces or even cities. The issue of construction land distribution is fairly important for the future pattern of the land market and, therefore, determines the development of the regional economy [2]. Although the large trans-provincial flow of the population has long attracted the attention of the central government, especially the resettlement of agricultural transfer population groups [67], the land policies related to this issue still lag behind, which was proven in our empirical analysis.…”

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“…From another perspective, the problem of the idle rural cultivated land caused by population migration also accelerates the CLOC rate. For instance, the rural-urban migration, which was considered to be the motivating power behind China's urbanization, was recognized to be responsible for the problem of "hollow villages", as many villagers chose to earn their livings in cities and have abandoned their original cultivated land [2], thereby creating the chance to convert spare cultivated land into construction land by the government [3].…”

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“…Its scarcity determines the fierce competition between different uses and sectors, leading to different resource allocation states [1]. Cultivated land occupation for construction (CLOC), as a specific manifestation of China's urbanization, reflects the result of the competition between cultivated land and urban construction land [2]. Rapid economic growth and constant population migrations are believed to be the main reasons for the continuous expansion of the scale of urban construction in China [3,4].…”

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“…With their deepening understanding of new urbanization, scholars have realized that the driving factors of the CLOC are diverse and complex and include effects from natural and geographical conditions, such as the topography, altitude, and distance from commercial centers or administrative regions [6,17,18], as well as other social and economic factors, including industrial structures [19], the urban-rural income gap [4], social welfare differences [20], population migration [21], and neighboring cities' effects [2]. Obviously, discussions on the spatial distribution and the driving forces of the CLOC are still ongoing, but there are several more meaningful issues that deserve our attention.…”

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A New Trend in the Space–Time Distribution of Cultivated Land Occupation for Construction in China and the Impact of Population Urbanization

Liu

2019

Sustainability

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Rapid urbanization has brought huge development dividends to China. At the same time, its negative effects have aroused people's attention. For example, a large amount of cultivated land has been occupied for urban expansion and construction. Using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and the spatial Durbin model (SDM), we analyzed the spatial distribution of cultivated land occupation for construction (CLOC) and its driving factors in 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2016. The results indicated that (1) the CLOC rate presented a significant spatial clustering feature, and its distribution showed a new trend of "homogenization" after the year 2012; (2) as the core driving factor, the population urbanization rate significantly promoted the growth of the CLOC rate in the local province, while showing a negative effect on that rate in the neighboring provinces;(3) in addition, behind the new trend of the CLOC rate, there was a transformation from being "investment driven" to being "population and industry driven". Therefore, this paper suggests that the government should link each city's construction land supply to the constantly changing trend of population migrations in China. Further, promoting the tertiary industry can be a win-win strategy for easing the tension between cultivated land and construction land.Sustainability 2019, 11, 5089 2 of 23 construction, to ensure economic stability and improve domestic livelihood issues (narrowing the urban-rural gap and increasing employment in poor areas). Therefore, issues related to the game relationship between cultivated land and construction land are becoming the focus of scholarly attention, including the driving forces of urban expansion [4,7], the chain effect of cultivated land loss [8,9], and the transformation from cultivated land into construction land [10,11].Sustainability 2019, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 23 urban-rural gap and increasing employment in poor areas). Therefore, issues related to the game relationship between cultivated land and construction land are becoming the focus of scholarly attention, including the driving forces of urban expansion [4,7], the chain effect of cultivated land loss [8,9], and the transformation from cultivated land into construction land [10,11].

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A New Trend in the Space–Time Distribution of Cultivated Land Occupation for Construction in China and the Impact of Population Urbanization

Liu

2019

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“…Land consolidation (LC) is the most effective land‐management approach to solve land fragmentation by readjusting roads and water canals, consolidating small and inefficient land parcels, and promoting the appropriate use of real estate property without changing the ownership status (Hakli, Uguz, & Cay, ; Vitikainen, ). In addition, rural LC is a systematic process and should be applied by respecting local landowners' willingness and wishes (Li, Wu, & Liu, ). LC is applied in 26 out of 28 European Union countries and in several other places around the world (Demetriou, ).…”

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Genetic algorithm supported by expert system to solve land redistribution problem

2018

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Land redistribution, a real‐world optimization problem, involves the distribution of land parcels in predetermined blocks based on the landowners' preferences. This process, measured in weeks or months, is usually performed manually by a technician with the support of computer software. Although various techniques have been developed in recent years to solve this complex problem, they all require improvement. This study aimed to develop a new technique and produce applicable redistribution plans using a genetic algorithm (GA) in combination with an expert system. Blocks of cadastral parcels were determined by a GA using a new objective function to consider the overflow and residual areas as well as the landowners' preferences. The expert system was employed to close (reduce to zero) the overflow or residual areas occurring after the GA distribution. To investigate the performance of the proposed method, the system was used on a real study area and the results were compared against those obtained for the same cadastral situation undertaken by a technician using a similar method from published literature. The experimental results showed that the method proposed in this study performed better than the other methods because it provided a successful and applicable redistribution plan for the study area in a much shorter time.

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Land acquisition in rural tourism destinations: How social relations influence cooperative behaviours?

Wang

Sun

2023

Journal of Tourism Research

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Land acquisition is becoming prevalent in most rural destinations. This study investigates the dynamic interaction process between rural residents regarding tourism‐led land acquisition and analyses how social relations influence cooperative behaviours by using social network analysis. The findings suggest that informal social relations between rural residents transmit influence and information, generating significantly positive impacts on individuals' land acquisition decisions. The multiple regression‐quadratic assignment procedure results further show that residential ties and political ties positively relate to the second land acquisition decision and that dynamic changes in formal political relations significantly facilitate the cooperative behaviour of rural residents. Our study suggests that building diverse social linkages between local governments and rural residents is conducive to promoting cooperation, shedding light on rural cooperative behaviours and sustainable tourism development.

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Land consolidation for rural sustainability in China: Practical reflections and policy implications

Cited by 234 publications

References 14 publications

A New Trend in the Space–Time Distribution of Cultivated Land Occupation for Construction in China and the Impact of Population Urbanization

A New Trend in the Space–Time Distribution of Cultivated Land Occupation for Construction in China and the Impact of Population Urbanization

Genetic algorithm supported by expert system to solve land redistribution problem

Land acquisition in rural tourism destinations: How social relations influence cooperative behaviours?

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