China's disappearing countryside : towards sustainable land gover nance for the poor /
by Yongjun Zhao.
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2013.
- xi, 161 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the mystic role of land tenure reform in sustainable rural development -- International context of land tenure reform : theo retical reconstruction -- A brief account of 600 years of China's land struggles before the market reform era -- China's land tenure reform si nce 1970s : crossing the river by touching the stones? -- Withering hou sehold responsibility system and sustainable natural resource managemen t in north China -- Land transfers for scaled development : an economic fix or marginalization of the poor? -- Innovative pro-poor collective land tenure : case study of a village commune in southern China -- Cond itions and dynamics of pro-poor land tenure.
9781409428213 (hardback : alk. paper)
2012-026014
Land reform--China. Rural poor Sustainable development--China.