An evaluation of contemporary China’s land use policy – The Link Policy: A case study from Ezhou, Hubei Province
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Article Title | An evaluation of contemporary China’s land use policy – The Link Policy: A case study from Ezhou, Hubei Province |
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ERA Journal ID | 21007 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Cheng, Long, Brown, Gregory, Liu, Yan and Searle, Glen |
Journal Title | Land Use Policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use |
Journal Citation | 91, pp. 1-14 |
Article Number | 104423 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | Feb 2020 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0264-8377 |
1873-5754 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104423 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837719301486 |
Abstract | Economic reform in China has resulted in rapid urbanisation over the past three decades, changing the urban and rural landscape dramatically. A large amount of farmland was developed, leading to conflict between construction demand and farmland protection. In response, the “Link Policy” was proposed in 2005 that seeks to concurrently preserve farmland while providing for urban expansion through land exchange. The effectiveness of the Link Policy has not been systematically investigated. The purpose of this study is to analyse and evaluate outcomes of the Link Policy objectives from both a participant and investigator's interpretive perspective. Ezhou, the first experimental city to implement the Link Policy in Hubei Province in central China, was selected as a case study area. Eight different communities in Ezhou were visited and 160 semi-structured interviews were conducted with resettled rural residents in March 2016. A combination of interviews and investigator field observations were used to evaluate the Link Policy objectives. The results show that participants recognize and support improving rural living conditions and coordinating urban-rural development, but the Link Policy failed to achieve the objectives of preserving farmland, protecting farmers’ land use rights and interests, and facilitating agricultural production. Participants perceived concentrated resettlement communities to be more efficient in land use compared to more expansive rural settlements, but vacant apartments for commercial use in resettlement areas account for a large proportion of land suggesting inefficiency in the land exchanges. We suggest policy changes to achieve more successful implementation of the Link Policy. |
Keywords | Link policy; Policy evaluation; Urbanisation; Land use; Ezhou |
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Byline Affiliations | Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
University of Queensland | |
California State Polytechnic University, United States | |
University of Sydney | |
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