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How Grassroots Cadres Broker Land Taking in Urbanizing China
Deng, Yanhua; O'Brien, Kevin J.; Zhang, Li - 2020
Grassroots leaders in peri-urban China are increasingly integrated into the bureaucracy but maintain their community ties, and for that reason are often recruited to broker land taking. Incomplete bureaucratization allows frontline cadres to act as both state agents and community members and can...
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The influence of urban sprawl on farmland prices in Belgium
Cavailhès, Jean; Thomas, Isabelle - 2010 - Draft version
Since over half a century, Europe has been undergoing periurbanization; this phenomenon is similar to suburbanisation or ìurban sprawlî in the U.S. Hence, for each plot of land, there is competition for land use (agriculture, urbanisation). We here study the effect of urban sprawl on the price...
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Urban sprawl occurrence under spatially varying agricultural amenities
Coisnon, Thomas; Oueslati, Walid; Salanié, Julien - In: Regional science & urban economics 44 (2014), pp. 38-49
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Determinants of residential land-use conversion and sprawl at the rural-urban fringe
Carrión-Flores, Carmen; Irwin, Elena G. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 86 (2004) 4, pp. 889-904
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Choosing informal ways to acquire land
Ige, Victor Olutope; Gbadegesin, Job Taiwo - In: Property management 40 (2022) 1, pp. 39-61
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DEMETER : an original reasoning to assess and control the loss of agricultural land related to the urban sprawl.
Le Gouee, Patrick - 2010
In the prolongation of the research actions relating to interregional program PSDR GO DYTEFORT, we have developed the program DÉMÉTER. This one is articulated around three objectives. At the level of the department of Calvados (5500 km²) and over one recent period (1998-2006), it is a...
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The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity : Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy
Deng, Zhongqi; Zhao, Qianyu; Bao, Helen - 2020
The rapid growth of China’s economy since the reform in 1978 should be largely attributed to urbanization. Nonetheless …, in terms of farmland productivity, urbanization may lead to perverse incentives and thus threaten food security. On the … “superior occupation and inferior compensation”; on the other hand, urbanization promotes the transfer of the younger labor …
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Land use and land acquisition laws in India
Hoda, Anwarul - 2018
The enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the compensation for acquired land, mandating a social impact...
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Socio-economic explanation of urban sprawl : evidence from Switzerland, 1970-2000 : paper to be presented at the 54th ERSA Congress, St.Petersburg, 26-29 August. Workshop: G_C Urba...
Weilenmann, Barbara; Schulz, Tobias - 2014
The term urban sprawl is often used to describe apparent inefficiencies of spatial development, including disproportionate growth of urban areas and excessive leapfrog development. In Switzerland, where open space is a scare resource, sprawl takes place all over the country. It goes at the...
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Land Conversion Across Cities in China
Fu, Shihe - 2020
The Chinese government has been using annual quotas to control the amount of farm-land that can be converted for urban uses in cities. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease transactions during 2007-2016, we document facts on land conversion for urban development in China. We present...
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